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Patrick French
Younghusband [EPUB ebook]
The Last Great Imperial Adventurer

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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.

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Língua Inglês ● Formato EPUB ● ISBN 9780141964300 ● Editora Penguin Books Ltd ● Publicado 2011 ● Carregável 6 vezes ● Moeda EUR ● ID 2271547 ● Proteção contra cópia Adobe DRM

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