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Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer

By Patrick French

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2016
ISBN
9781101973356, 9781101973349
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
26 MB (27731817 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-15 08:00:26
Biography & Autobiography; History; Nonfiction; BI

Description

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.

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