# Younghusband

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- Book: [Younghusband](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-french/younghusband) ([Younghusband.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-french/younghusband.md))
- Authors: [Patrick French](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-french)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-430-0
- Published: 2011-10-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.