Volume 44, Number 10 · June 12, 1997
The Road to Lhasa
By Jeremy Bernstein
Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer
by Patrick French
HarperCollins, 440 pp., $13.00 (paper)
I first went to Chitral in 1969 in order to explore its mountains, which are particularly beautiful and remote. A rugged land now part of Pakistan, Chitral lies along the so-called Northwest Frontier between the former India of the Raj and Afghanistan. Reading extensively about the place at the time of my trip, I learned about the first explorations there, seventy-five years before, by a British expeditionary force. The purpose of its mission was to keep an eye on things after the death of the local ruler, which the British worried would lead to trouble on their northern Indian border.
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