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Name: Younghusband
Full title: Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer
Author: Patrick French
Year: 1994
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Genres/categories: History, Biographies, Non Fiction, Award winners, Travel

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Winner of the Somerset Maugham award in 1995.
Winner of the W.H. Heinemann Award in 1995.

Sir Francis Younghusband was the last of the great imperialists--a dashing adventurer, who in 1903 single-handedly invaded Tibet, wiped out its entire army, and then became a mystic. Admired by H.G Wells and Bertrand Russell, he launched early assaults on Mt. Everest, held the world record for the 300-yard dash, was the first European since Marco Polo to travel from Peking to Central Asia, discovered the source of the Indus, and, as a spy, his presumed death nearly sparked an Indo-Russian war. The quest to discover this man led Patrick French from the Himalayas to Kashmir and into Tibet in search of clues.
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