Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet: And of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa

ISBN-13: 9781108022552 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 566 str.

George Bogle; Thomas Manning; Sir Clements R. Markham

Opis

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."