by Patrick French · HarperCollins UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006376019
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«Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer» is the biography of Francis Younghusband by Patrick French, in paperback (HarperCollins UK, 480 pages).
The book follows the life of Sir Francis Younghusband, adventurer and British officer who took part in the Great Game for control of Central Asia, invaded Tibet in 1903 and ended up becoming a mystic. It also covers his world record of 300 yards, the overland route he opened between China and India and his role in the first assaults on Everest.
The work falls within historical and political biography; the 2004 edition, in English, has 480 pages.
For readers of historical biographies, British Empire history and explorations in Asia.
Patrick Rollo Basil French was a British writer, historian and academician. He was the author of several books including: Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer (1994), a biography of Francis Younghusband; The World Is What It Is (2008), an authorised biography of Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul that won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States; and India: A Portrait (2011).
