Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer

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Sir Francis Younghusband was the last of the great imperialistsa 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.