For fans of British Imperial, Chinese and Tibetan history and historical travel writing For fans of Patrick French's Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer
Kate Teltscher is a Reader in English Literature at Roehampton University. She has published numerous essays in academic collections and journals, and reviewed for the Guardian and the TLS. Her doctoral research, a study of British and European writing on India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was published as India Inscribed (OUP, 1995). The High Road to China is her first book for a general readership.
‘Thrilling and fascinating ... Letters, journals and documents are
woven into the flowing narrative, which is wonderfully vivid and
evocative'
*Jenny Uglow*
‘It is hard to imagine this fascinating story being told with
greater sensitivity or skill'
*Sunday Telegraph*
‘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*
‘Teltscher is a remarkable new historian ... wholly original'
*William Dalrymple*
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