Powell Millington

Powell Millington was a British author active in the early 1900s. From the surviving editions now online, he is credited with To Lhassa at Last (published in 1905) and is also identified on that title page as the author of In Cantonments and In and Beyond Cantonments.

To Lhassa at Last is a firsthand travel narrative about the British mission to Lhasa in Tibet. In its prefatory pages, Millington writes as someone who traveled with the column himself, giving the book an on-the-ground feel rather than the tone of a distant historian.

Very little clearly verified biographical information about his life seems to be readily available from the sources found here. What does come through strongly is his writing voice: observant, lightly witty, and interested in the people, logistics, and odd moments that make a long expedition memorable.