Author(s): Patrick French

World Biography & Memoirs | Secondhand

Secondhand.

A great book on one of the oddest figures of the British Empire - invader of Tibet, visionary and instigator of the hymn 'Jerusalem'

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.

VG. Light fading page. Minor rubbing cover.