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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
October 2011
Print publication year:
2010
First published in:
1881
Online ISBN:
9780511722295
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511722295
Subjects:
Area Studies, South Asian History, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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Book description

First published in 1876, this volume contains first-hand accounts of the first voyages to Tibet by British diplomat George Bogle (1747–1781) and scholar Thomas Manning (1772–1840) in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In 1774 Bogle was appointed the leader of the first British diplomatic mission to the previously unknown country of Tibet in an attempt to establish friendly relations and open trade links between the two countries. Bogle spent six months wintering in various places in Tibet, exploring Tibetan culture and politics. Thomas Manning became the first English national to enter the city of Lhasa and to speak with the Dalai Lama in 1811. Edited by prolific writer and president of the Royal Geographical Society Sir Clements Markham (1830–1916), this fascinating volume also includes a detailed introduction providing the historical and geographic context of the voyages, together with biographies of the two adventurers.

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