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...
First published in 1876, this volume contains first-hand accounts of the first voyages to Tibet by British diplomat George Bogle (1747 1781) and schol...
