The Unveiling of Lhasa – Edmund Candler

Congratulations to Earnshaw Books for republishing Edmund Candler’s The Unveiling of Lhasa.

“The kind of book which the ordinary reader wants… easy, bright, and graphic, but for all its apparent simplicity there are ideas lurking in the crisp sentences.”

The Times (London)

December, 1903. A border dispute escalates amid rumors of a proposed secret alliance between Russia and the religious monarchy at Lhasa. British Colonel Francis Younghusband marches his Indian troops north with a battalion of coolies and special correspondent for The Daily Mail Edmund Candler in tow. It was a thrilling new chapter in the “Great Game” of Asian colonial supremacy, which sent the men deep into the heart of a region that few outsiders had ever lived to recount.

Who is Edmund Candler?
Edmund Candler (1874-1926) was a popular war correspondent, once called “the very soul of fearlessness” by The London Times. Born and educated in England, he become an educator in India and was named principal of Mohimara College in Patiala State. In 1903, he lost an arm as special correspondent to accompany the Younghusband mission in Tibet. In WWI, he wrote from the Western Front and Iraq. He was the author of several books including novels and nonfiction.