The high road to China : George Bogle, the Panchen Lama and the first British expedition to Tibet
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The high road to China : George Bogle, the Panchen Lama and the first British expedition to Tibet
(Bloomsbury paperbacks)
Bloomsbury, 2007, c2006
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  Fukushima
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  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
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  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
"This paperback edition published 2007"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-299) and index
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‘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
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An unlikely meeting between a young Scotsman and the Panchen Lama gives birth to a remarkable friendship
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.
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