author
Edwin John Dingle
1881–1972
An English journalist and travel writer, he turned his years in Asia into vivid adventure narratives that brought distant places and spiritual traditions to Western readers. His best-known work, My Life in Tibet, blends memoir, exploration, and early-20th-century fascination with Tibet.
2 Audiobooks
Across China on Foot
by Edwin John Dingle
China's Revolution, 1911-1912: A Historical and Political Record of the Civil War
by Edwin John Dingle
About the author
Born in Cornwall in 1881, Edwin John Dingle built an unusually wide-ranging life as a journalist, editor, and author. He worked in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, reporting on events in Asia and writing from firsthand experience at a time when many Western readers knew little about the region.
That background shaped books such as Across China on Foot and My Life in Tibet, which drew on his travels through China, India, Burma, and Tibet. His writing is remembered for its mix of reportage, travel adventure, and personal testimony, offering readers a lively window into the political and cultural world of Asia in the early 1900s.
Later in life, Dingle became associated with the Institute of Mentalphysics in California, reflecting the spiritual interests that also appear in his autobiographical work. He died in 1972, leaving behind books that still attract readers curious about exploration, cross-cultural encounter, and the era's travel writing.