{"product_id":"high-road-to-china-book-kate-teltscher-9780747585473","title":"The High Road to China","description":"_______________  ‘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 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49570849554705,"sku":"GOR001877081","price":13.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50206592958737,"sku":"GOR004735704","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51399973994769,"sku":"GOR004280222","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0747585474.jpg?v=1751446814","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/high-road-to-china-book-kate-teltscher-9780747585473","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}