Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer by French, Patrick (1995) Hardcover

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(The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul ) Author: Patrick French Apr-2009

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The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul by French, Patrick (November 3, 2009) Paperback

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(Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer ) Author: Patrick French Jan-2011

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The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul

(The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controvers...)

The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacred. Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where Naipaul was born into an Indian family, Patrick French skillfully examines Naipaul’s life within a displaced community and his fierce ambition at school. He describes how, on scholarship at Oxford, homesickness and depression struck with great force; the ways in which Naipaul’s first wife helped him to cope and their otherwise fraught marriage; and Naipaul’s struggles throughout subsequent uncertainties in England, including his twenty-five-year-long affair. Naipaul’s extraordinary gift—producing, uniquely, masterpieces of both fiction and nonfiction—is most of all born of a forceful, visionary impulse, whose roots French traces with a sympathetic brilliance and devastating insight.

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Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer

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Sir Francis Younghusband was the last of the great imperialists—a 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.

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The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul

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Researched with the full co-operation of its nobel prize-winning subject, this is the first major biography of one of our greatest writers vs naipaul is the most compelling literary figure of the last fifty years producing, uniquely, masterpieces of both fiction and non-fiction, his is a gift born of a forceful, visionary impulse with great feeling for his formidable body of work, and exclusive access to his private papers and personal recollections, patrick french has produced a luminous and astonishing account of this enigmatic genius vs naipaul was born in trinidad, into an indian family french examines early privations, naipaul's life within a displaced community and his talent and fierce ambition at school, which won him a scholarship to oxford at the age of seventeen he describes how, once in england, homesickness and depression struck with great force, and the ways in which naipaul, supported by his first wife, overcame his double exile', culminating in the production of early masterpieces such as a house for mr biswas, an area of darkness and in a free state through the uncertainties of life in london, and later in wiltshire, naipaul and his wife were to stay together for over four decades, even after he embarked on an intense twenty-five-year love affair as his reputation grew, as prizes and accolades were bestowed, as a second wave of breathtaking creation generated a bend in the river, among the believers and the enigma of arrival, naipaul found and sustained an extraordinary position both outside and at the centre of literary culture researched with the full cooperation of its nobel prize-winning subject, patrick french traces with sympathetic brilliance and devastating insight the roots of vs naipaul's unparalleled gift, in what will become a landmark in biography

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The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul 1st edition by Patrick French (2008) Hardcover

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THE WORLD IS WHAT IT IS BY French, PatrickThe World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. NaipaulKnopf Publishing Group(Publisher) on 2008

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Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer by Patrick French (27-Jan-2011) Mass Market Paperback

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Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land

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He finds a land with a long, warlike past and a complex interlocking relationship with China. He meets victims and perpetrators of Mao's Cultural Revolution, and young nuns who continue the fight against Communist rule. He stays in the tents of nomads, and hears first-hand accounts of the hopeless battle against overwhelmingly superior Chinese forces which ended, in a single day, a way of life which had endured for thousands of years. On his journey, Patrick French is continually sidetracked by a cascade of information, thoughts and reflections on such subjects: as how to blind a cabinet minister using a yak's knucklebones, the correct method of travelling across a desert by night, and the reasons for the Dalai Lama's transformation into 'an unknown dark-brown bird, bigger than a normal raven'. Patrick French has found a new way of writing about a place and its history. He fascinatingly illuminates one of the most persistently troubling of international issues, and confirms his reputation as one of the finest writers at work today.

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Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land

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From the author of "India: A Portrait", Patrick French's "Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land" has been acclaimed as the book that showed the real Tibet for the first time. Tibet has long fascinated the West, but what really lies beyond our romantic image of a Buddhist mountain kingdom of peace and spirituality? Travelling through the country, French meets warrior monks, nomads and a nun secretly fighting Chinese communist rule, but also young Tibetans with a more pragmatic attitude to their situation. Interweaving these encounters with little-known stories of war and turmoil from Tibet's past, he reveals a more nuanced, fascinating and surprising picture of this complex place than any other book has done. "Mixes a compelling subject, magnificent prose and deep understanding". ("The Times"). "Inspired and heartfelt ...shows that Tibet was never the peace-loving paradise so many generations of well-wishers have longed for it to be". (Pico Iyer, "Los Angeles Times"). "Tibet, Tibet, so good they named it twice...French is a writer of generous talents". ("Sunday Times"). "French has produced something very different from what he calls "Tibetophile" literature, something greatly superior in its honesty and lack of false sentiment". ("Spectator"). "A gripping mix of history, travel writing and personal memoir ...vividly told". ("Observer"). Patrick French 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.

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The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul Paperback - November 3, 2009

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