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 singlehandedly led the 1904 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.
Autorentext
Autorentext
Patrick French
Titel
Younghusband
Untertitel
The Last Great Imperial Adventurer
Autor
EAN
9780141964300
ISBN
978-0-14-196430-0
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
06.10.2011
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
4.3 MB
Anzahl Seiten
464
Jahr
2011
Untertitel
Englisch
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