It was a thrilling new chapter in the Great GameA" of Asian colonial supremacy, which sent the men deep into the heart of a region that few outsiders had ever lived to recount.
Author Biography
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.
