Table of Contents
Map ix
Family tree xi
Preface 1
Chapter 1 In Memoriam - 26 December 1874 3
Chapter 2 The Christening 12
Chapter 3 The Reluctant Schoolboy 17
Chapter 4 Lessons and Life 31
Chapter 5 Ship Ahoy 50
Chapter 6 My Father's House 58
Chapter 7 Time Will Tell 67
Chapter 8 'A Young Man in Possession of a Good Fortune' 74
Chapter 9 'All the World's a Stage' 81
Chapter 10 The Royal Visit 89
Chapter 11 Horsepower 97
Chapter 12 Motor Car-narvon 107
Chapter 13 A Slice and a Hook 112
Chapter 14 Ceylon 117
Chapter 15 The Mummified Cat 126
Chapter 16 Howard Carter 133
Chapter 17 The Tomb of Tetaky 142
Chapter 18 Marvellous Men in Their Flying Machines 151
Chapter 19 The Carnarvon and Carter Partnership 155
Chapter 20 Bad Schwalbach 162
Chapter 21 The Valley of the Queens 174
Chapter 22 The Moth Club 184
Chapter 23 Castle Carter 190
Chapter 24 Five Years at Thebes 199
Chapter 25 Camping 208
Chapter 26 The Valley of the Kings 212
Chapter 27 June 1914 218
Chapter 28 Kitchener's Armies 231
Chapter 29 Egypt 238
Chapter 30 Bryanston Square 247
Chapter 31 Serve to Lead 257
Chapter 32 In Flanders Fields 261
Chapter 33 Go Gently into the Night 266
Chapter 34 'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori' 273
Chapter 35 Land of Light - 1919 278
Chapter 36 Winter 1922 299
Chapter 37 Wonderful Things 321
Chapter 38 Holy of Holies 331
Chapter 39 The Mosquito 336
Chapter 40 The Funeral Procession - Saturday 28 April 1923 342
Chapter 41 Legacy 348
Acknowledgements 357
General bibliography 359
List of illustrations 363
Index 365