Perceval Landon
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Perceval Landon was an English writer, traveller and journalist, now best remembered for his classic and much reprinted ghost story Thurnley Abbey.
Perceval Landon in May 1919.
Landon, second from the right, in hat.
British expedition to Tibet
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The British expedition to Tibet, also known as the Younghusband expedition, began in December 1903 and lasted until September 1904. The expedition was effectively a temporary invasion by British India
Perceval Landon
…politics of what was commonly called the Middle East." His best known non-fiction work is The opening of Tibet (1905), which he wrote after joining the British expedition to Tibet in 1903–1904; the book is subtitled "an account of Lhasa and the country and people of central Tibet and of the progress of the mission sent there by…
British Raj officers with Qing amban and Tibetans
Lamellar coat and helmet. From Tibet, in modern-day China. 14th–17th century CE. Iron, leather, and textile. Presented by Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Younghusband. Discoveries Gallery, National Museum of Scotland
Major Francis Younghusband leading a British force to Lhasa in 1904
Tibetan soldier during target practice