Younghusband - The last great imperial adventurer
Author(s): Patrick French
Biographies and memoirs | Biographies | Empire Wars
Soldier, explorer, mystic, guru, and spy, Francis Younghusband began his colonial career as a military adventurer and became a radical visionary who preached free love to his followers.
Patrick French's award-winning biography traces the unpredictable life of the maverick with the "damned rum name," who single-handedly led the 190 British invasion of Tibet, discovered a new route from China to India, organized the first expeditions up Mount Everest and attempted to start a new world religion. Following in Younghusband's footsteps, from Calcutta to the snows of the Himalayas, French pieces together the story of a man who embodies all the romance and folly of Britain's lost imperial dream.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- : Harper Element
- : 0.340194
- : 01 January 1995
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- : Great Britain
- : books
Special Fields
- : Patrick French
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 325.3/41/0549/092
- : 440