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For all the tea in China : how England stole the world's favorite drink and changed history
- Title
- For all the tea in China : how England stole the world's favorite drink and changed history / Sarah Rose.
- Author
- Rose, Sarah.
- Publication
- New York : Viking, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- x, 261 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- An account of mid-19th-century botanist Robert Fortune's mission to travel to China's remote Wu Yi Shan hills to steal closely guarded secrets of tea horticulture and manufacturing describes his encounters with pirates, threatening weather, and unethical people.
- Subjects
- Tea trade > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Tea > China > History > 19th century
- China > Description and travel
- Tea trade > China > History > 19th century
- Himalaya Mountains > Description and travel
- Spies > Great Britain > Biography
- Business intelligence > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Tea > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Fortune, Robert, 1813-1880 > Travel > China
- East India Company History > 19th century
- Note
- 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.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-254) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue -- Min River, China, 1845 -- East India House, City of London, January 12, 1848 -- Chelsea Physic Garden, May 7, 1848 -- Shanghai to Hangzhou, September 1848 -- Zhejiang Province near Hangzhou, October 1848 -- A green tea factory, Yangtze River,October 1848 -- House of Wang, Anhui Province, November 1848 -- Shanghai at the Lunar New Year, January 1849 -- Calcutta Botanic Garden, March 1849 -- Saharunpur, North-West Provinces, June 1849 -- Ningbo to Bohea, the Great Tea Road, May and June 1849 -- Bohea, July 1849 -- Pucheng, September 1849 -- Shanghai, Autumn 1849 -- Shanghai, February 1851 -- Himalayan Mountains, May 1851 -- Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield Lock, 1852 -- Tea for the Victorians -- Fortune's story.
- Call Number
- JFD 10-3373
- ISBN
- 9780670021529 : HRD
- 0670021520 : HRD
- LCCN
- 2009041482
- Author
- Rose, Sarah.
- Title
- For all the tea in China : how England stole the world's favorite drink and changed history / Sarah Rose.
- Imprint
- New York : Viking, 2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-254) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 10-3373