Title:Bayonets to Lhasa: The British Invasion of Tibet
ISBN:9781848856981
Author:Peter Fleming
Publisher:Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Publish Year:2012
Edition:First Paperback Edition
Cover:Paper Back
Subject:Tibet | Tibetan History | Tibetan Politics
Language:English
Remarks:B&W Photographs, Notes, Bibliography and Index.
Pages:308
Size:128 x 198 mm
Weight(gms):345
Price:USD 15.85
The British invasion of Tibet in 1904 is one of the strangest events in British imperial history. Conceived by Lord Curzon as a strategic move in the Great Game - that colossal struggle between imperial Britain and Tsarist Russia for influence in Central Asia - the incursion was in fact ill-conceived and inspired by only the weakest of motivations. Led by the soldier, explorer and mystic, Francis Younghusband, the mission - doomed from the very beginning - became caught in political cross-fire and the distant and destructive machinations of China and Britain and ended in ignominy and disappointment for this idealistic adventurer. Peter Fleming's gripping portrayal of this curious episode and its charismatic protagonists brilliantly illuminates what is now seen as a key moment in the Great Game, the repercussions of which continue to be felt throughout the region.
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