The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama and the First British Expedition to Tibet
✍ Scribed by Teltscher, Kate
- Book ID
- 107903772
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781408846759
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
In 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. ϡ쯦랠