For all the tea in China How England stole the world's favorite drink and changed history
Book - 2010
Rose's remarkable account follows the journey of Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, who was deployed by the British East India Company to steal China's tea secrets in 1848. This thrilling narrative combines history, geography, and old-fashioned adventure.
- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
Viking
2010.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 2009, with title For all the tea in China : espionage, empire, and the secret formula for the world's favourite drink.
- Physical Description
- x, 261 pages ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-254) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780670021529
- Prologue
- 1. Min River, China, 1845
- 2. East India House, City of London, January 12, 1848
- 3. Chelsea Physic Garden, May 7, 1848
- 4. Shanghai to Hangzhou, September 1848
- 5. Zhejiang Province near Hangzhou, October 1848
- 6. A Green Tea Factory, Yangtze River, October 1848
- 7. House of Wang, Anhui Province, November 1848
- 8. Shanghai at the Lunar New Year, January 1849
- 9. Calcutta Botanic Garden, March 1849
- 10. Saharanpur, North-West Provinces, June 1849
- 11. Ningbo to Bohea, the Great Tea Road, May and June 1849
- 12. Bohea, July 1849
- 13. Pucheng, September 1849
- 14. Shanghai, Autumn 1849
- 15. Shanghai, February 1851
- 16. Himalayan Mountains, May 1851
- 17. Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield Lock, 1852
- 18. Tea for the Victorians
- 19. FortuneÆs Story
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
Review by Library Journal Review