On the Game

Kathryn Tidrick

  • Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer by Patrick French
    HarperCollins, 440 pp, £20.00, October 1994, ISBN 0 00 215733 0

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.

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