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The High Road to China, Paperback / softback Book

The High Road to China Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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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_______________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.

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