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Informationen zum Autor Patrick French is a writer and historian, born in England in 1966. He is the author of Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer , which won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Royal Society of Literature W. H. Heinemann Prize, Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division , which won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land and, most recently, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul , which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hawthornden Prize. Klappentext Patrick French is a writer and historian! born in England in 1966. He is the author of Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer ! which won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Royal Society of Literature W. H. Heinemann Prize! Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division ! which won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award! Tibet! Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land and! most recently! The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul ! which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hawthornden Prize. Zusammenfassung From Calcutta to the snows of the Himalayas, this book pieces together the story of a man who embodies all the romance and folly of Britain's lost imperial dream. It 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.
