Younghusband

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 I...