Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer by Patrick French

Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer

Patrick French

480 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous slow-paced
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Sir Francis Younghusband was the last of the great imperialists—a dashing adventurer, who in 1903 single-handedly invaded Tibet, wiped out its entire army, and then became a mystic. Admired by H.G Wells and Bertrand Russell, he launched early assa...

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