Younghusband The Last Great Imperial Adventurer

Name: Younghusband The Last Great Imperial Adventurer
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ISBN: 9780006376019

ISBN-10: 0006376010

ISBN-13: 9780006376019

Edition: 1995

Authors: Patrick French

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Description:

This biography is an exuberant, scholarly and often very funny portrait of one of the British Empire's greatest heroes.

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Maps


Introduction





Younghusband: 'Damned Rum Name'


Two Journeys to the Mountains


Playing Great Games beyond Manchuria


Across the Gobi and Down the Mustagh


'Impressed by My Bearing': Bearding the Mir


That Sinkiang Feeling: Outwitted in High Asia


Loving a Splendid Colonel and Seeking God's Kingdom


Clubland: Travels with a Most Superior Person


'Not Only a Fiasco': African Intrigue





An Interlude in Rajputana


'A Really Magnificent Business'


The Sikkim Adventure


Sixty-seven Shirts, a Bath and an Army


'The Empire Cannot Be Run like a Tea Party'


'Bolting like Rabbits': Blood in the Land of Snows


'Helpless as if the Sky Had Hit the Earth'


Fame in Disgrace and Diversion in Kashmir





Playing Politics, Brushing Death, Preaching Atheism


Fighting for Right in the Great War


The Quest for a World Leader on the Planet Altair


Running the Jog and Climbing Mount Everest


Religious Dramas, Peculiar Swamis and Indian Sagas


The Remains of His Day: Inventing Societies


Love in the Blitz


Epilogue: Creating the God-Child


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index