Younghusband by Patrick French
Sir Francis Younghusband was the last of the great imperialists, a dashing adventurer - in 1903 he single-handedly invaded Tibet, wiped out its entire army and then became a mystic. Admired by H.G Wells and Bertrand Russell, he held the world record for the 300-yard dash, was the first European since Marco Polo to travel from Peking to Central Asia, discovered the source of the Indus and as a spy his presumed death almost sparked off an Indo-Russian war. The quest to quantify this man has led Patrick French through the Mustagh Pass, from the Himalayas to Kashmir, and into Tibet in search of clues, and into Younghusband's personal papers only recently made available personal papers only recently made available to the public.Patrick French was born in England in 1966. He spent four years at Edinburgh University studying English and American literature, and is the author of ‘Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer’ (1994), which won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780002157339 |
| ISBN 10 | 0002157330 |
| Title | Younghusband |
| Author | Patrick French |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1994-10-03 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Winner of Somerset Maugham Award 1995 |
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