Francis Younghusband
Appearance
Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (Murree, Punjab probintzia, Britainiar Raj, 1863ko maiatzaren 31 – Lytchett Minster, Dorset, 1942ko uztailaren 31) britainiar militar, esploratzaile eta idazlea izan zen.
Indian jaio zen eta txikitan amarekin Ingalaterrara joan zen bizitzera. 1881ean Sandhursteko Errege Ikastetxe Militarrean sartu zen.
Asiako estepetako Joko Handian aditu bihurtu zen. Xinjiangera, Turkestanera, Mongoliara eta Mantxuriara zenbait espedizio zuzendu zituen. 1904an, britainiar espedizio militarra zuzendu zuen Tibetera.
Royal Geographical Societyko presidentea izan zen. 26 liburu idatzi zituen Asiari, esplorazioari, mendizaletasunari, filosofiari, espiritualtasunari eta politikari buruz.
Lanak
[aldatu | aldatu iturburu kodea]- Confidential Report of a Mission to the Northern Frontier of Kashmir in 1889 (Calcutta, 1890).
- The Relief of Chitral (1895) (co-authored with his brother George John Younghusband)
- South Africa of Today (1896)
- The Heart of a Continent (1896) The heart of a continent: vol.1
- The Empire and the century (1905)
- Kashmir (1909)
- India and Tibet: a history of the relations which have subsisted between the two countries from the time of Warren Hastings to 1910; with a particular account of the mission to Lhasa of 1904 (1910)
- Within: Thoughts During Convalescence (1912)
- Mutual Influence: A Re-View of Religion (1915)
- The Sense of Community (1916)
- The Gleam (1923)
- Modern Mystics (1923) (ISBN 1-4179-8003-6, reprint 2004)
- Mother World in Travail for the Christ that is to be (1924)
- Wonders of the Himalayas (1924)
- The Epic of Mount Everest (1926) (ISBN 0-330-48285-8, reprint 2001).
- Life in the Stars (1927)
- The Light of Experience (1927)
- Dawn in India (1930)
- The Living Universe (1933)
- The Mystery of Nature in Frances Mason. The Great Design: Order and Progress in Nature (1934)
- The Sum of Things (1939)
- Vital Religion (1940)