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Younghusband, The Last Great Imperial Adventurer

Younghusband, The Last Great Imperial Adventurer


by Patrick French

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 464 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

The riveting biography of Sir Francis Younghusband, a key player in Britain's scramble for power in Central Asia, thrown out of the Pamirs by the Russia in 1891, who among his many imperial adventures discovered the source of the Indus. (TBT75, $)

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