The High Road to China
336 pagesPaperbacknewAug 2006
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In 1774 the head of the East India Company in Bengal, Warren Hastings, determined to open trade relations with the hitherto impenetrable court of imperial China.
To this end he entrusted the young Scotsman George Bogle to be the first British envoy to Tibet.
Once there, Bogle attempted to enlist the influence of the Pa
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