Teltscher, Kate : The High Road to China

George Bogle, the Panchen Lama and the First British Expedition to Tibet

_'Splendid and fascinating ... Teltscher has made remarkable use of her source material, aided by the constantly perceptive and witty tone of Bogle's own writings' - Patrick French, Sunday Times'It is hard to imagine this fascinating story being told with greater sensitivity or skill' - Sunday Telegraph'Teltscher is a remarkable new historian ... wholly original' - William Dalrymple'Thrilling and fascinating ... Letters, journals and documents are woven into the flowing narrative, which is wonderfully vivid and evocative' - Jenny Uglow_______________An unlikely meeting between a young Scotsman and the Panchen Lama gives birth to a remarkable friendshipIn 1774 British traders longed to open relations with China so they sent a young Scotsman, George Bogle, as an envoy to Tibet. Bogle became smitten by what he saw there, and struck up a remarkable friendship with the Panchen Lama. This gripping book tells the story of their two extraordinary journeys across some of the harshest and highest terrain in the world: Bogle's mission, and the Panchen Lama's state visit to China, on which British hopes were hung. Piecing together extracts from Bogle's private papers, Tibetan biographies of the Panchen Lama, the account of a wandering Hindu monk and the writings of the Emperor himself, Kate Teltscher deftly reconstructs the momentous meeting of these very different worlds.
 

• Herausgeber ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Publishing; 1. Edition (6. August 2007)
• Sprache ‏ : ‎ Englisch
• Taschenbuch ‏ : ‎ 336 Seiten
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0747585474
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0747585473
• Abmessungen ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2.2 x 19.8 cm

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