On the Game
Kathryn Tidrick, 22 December 1994
Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer
by Patrick French.
HarperCollins, 440 pp., £20, October 1994,0 00 215733 0 Show More
by Patrick French.
HarperCollins, 440 pp., £20, October 1994,
“... The British acquired their Empire in an untidy, un-coordinated fashion of which they became rather proud. This vast imperium, they said to themselves, exists almost entirely as the result of undirected individual enterprise – undirected yet tending mysteriously towards a common end. There was no master plan, indeed no conscious design. British activity across the globe had simply produced its natural and inevitable consequence ... ”