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Between Marco Polo in the late 13th century and French priest Abbe Huc in the 1840s, practically no European set foot in western China - then considered one of the most difficult regions in the world for road, rail and river navigation given its formidable topography of high mountains, deep valleys and great rivers. This isolation gave western China somewhat of a reputation amongst westerners as a hidden El Dorado - a place of great wealth and fertility. From the 1850s onwards, as the Victorian age was in full swing, Britons - and other westerners - began to develop a taste for overseas...