{"product_id":"9780747585473-secondhand-the-high-road-to-china","title":"The High Road to China","description":"_______________ \n\n '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 \n\n 'It is hard to imagine this fascinating story being told with greater sensitivity or skill'   - Sunday Telegraph \n\n 'Teltscher is a remarkable new historian ... wholly original'  - William Dalrymple\n\n 'Thrilling and fascinating ... Letters, journals and documents are woven into the flowing narrative, which is wonderfully vivid and evocative'  - Jenny Uglow\n _______________ \n\n An unlikely meeting between a young Scotsman and the Panchen Lama gives birth to a remarkable friendship \n\nIn 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. \n\nThis 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.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49042107728091,"sku":"9780747585473-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/acc7a807-6c23-4ebd-85c1-b88507e78abc.jpg?v=1785339290","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780747585473-secondhand-the-high-road-to-china","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}