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<b>From Calcutta to the snows of the Himalayas, Patrick French's <i>Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer</i> pieces together the story of a man who embodies all the romance and folly of Britain's lost imperial dream.</b> 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. 'A story full of excitement and insight, humour and curiosity' Michael Holroyd 'Breathtakingly accomplished' <i>Observer</i> 'Beautifully written, wise, balanced, fair, funny and above all extremely original' William Dalrymple 'Dazzling' Niall Ferguson 'I found myself reading through the night. This is a rare gem of a book, one which so perfectly combines author and subject that it must set new standards for the future of historical biography' <i>Independent on Sunday</i> <b>Patrick French</b> is the author of <i>Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer</i>, which won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Royal Society of Literature W. H. Heinemann Prize, <i>Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division</i>, which won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, <i>Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land</i>, <i>The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul</i>, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hawthornden Prize, and <i>India: A Portrait</i>.
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Younghusband, Patrick French, Jan Morris
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- 2011
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