For people who love to read about Tibet and British imperial history For fans of the Great Game, who bought, e.g., Patrick French's Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer An early reflection on relations between Britain and China Wide review coverage guaranteed. Readers of William Dalrymple will love this book
Kate Teltscher is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University. She studied at the University of York and was a North Senior scholar at St John's College, Oxford. 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 (Oxford University Press, 1995). The High Road to China is her first book for a general readership.
'A wonderful book, absolutely compelling - partly because the two journeys, Bogle's to Tibet and the Panchen Lama's to China, give it a structure full of suspense and expectation, but mainly because the material is so beautifully organised to bring this out. The exoticism - clothes, food, buildings - is ravishing. I am quite certain that readers will find it irresistible.' John Carey 'Thrilling and fascinating - Kate Teltscher makes us feel the awe of her hero, young Bogle, on his journey through India and Tibet to meet the Panchen Lama, but she also takes us further, on the Lama's own thousand-mile journey to the sumptuous summer court of the greatest Chinese emperor, Qianlong. Letters, journals and documents are woven into the flowing narrative, which is wonderfully vivid and evocative - reeds, tents, people, food, silks, clothes, weather. And the intimate drama is underpinned by a clear understanding of the power struggles of the day, of the mutual wariness - and explotiation - of Oriental and European rulers, and the fascination for Enlightenment writers of societies very different to their own.' Jenny Uglow "Fascinating ... an extraordinary narrative about 18th-century precursors of the Great Game, set in India, Tibet and China, dominated by marvellous characters and told with a rare mixture of scholarly learning and enthusiast's fizz." Jan Morris
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