Younghusband

Name: Younghusband
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ISBN: 9780002157339

ISBN-10: 0002157330

ISBN-13: 9780002157339

Edition: 1994

Authors: Patrick French

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"Sir Francis Younghusband was the last of the great imperialists and a dashing adventurer. In 1903 he single-handedly turned a small diplomatic mission into a full-scale military invasion of the last unexplored country on earth, Tibet. Yet he subsequently became an outlandish mystical philosopher and an Indian nationalist. Admired by Bertrand Russell, Lord Curzon, H. G. Wells and John Buchan, Younghusband held the world record for the 300-yard dash, was The Times correspondent during the siege of Chitral, became the first European since Marco Polo to find a new overland route from China to India, and organized the early assaults on Mount Everest." "In a life that provides a rare glimpse…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Zondervan
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 388
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.44" long x 1.56" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English