[BITList] The fantastic adventures of the tartan-turbaned colonel

[John Feltham]

From a correspondent…



13 May 2017


The fantastic adventures of the tartan-turbaned colonel

Once dismissed as an exotic fraud, Alexander Gardner was indeed the 
dare-devil Himalayan explorer he claimed to be.

William Dalrymple reviews ''The Tartan Turban: In Search of Alexander 
Gardner'' by John Keay. (Kashi House, pp.324, £25)

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/05/the-fantastic-adventures-of-the-tartan-turbaned-colonel/#  <https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/05/the-fantastic-adventures-of-the-tartan-turbaned-colonel/#>




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