To escape debt and summonses, Lord Exford is sent abroad in 1788 with Winstanley, a prudish clergyman and Higgins, a truculent artist. They are shipwrecked on a Greek island ruled by a Turkish pasha where they meet Amelia, a botanist, feminist and intrepid explorer.  She travels alone with a Syrian servant and an irascible camel.

Star-crossed lovers, renegades and minstrels, pirates and djinn are just some of the characters our travellers encounter. Befuddled by love, hashish and his classical education, Winstanley takes on the might of the Sultan and it is left to the wily Exford to deliver his eccentric band from an unspeakable fate.

Between Ancient Greece and Modern Greece were four centuries of Turkish Greece. In The Hero of Negropont,  Ottoman meets Georgian.  Join Lord Exford on his Not-So-Grand Tour of this fascinating time.