For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History

For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
ISBN-10
0143118749
ISBN-13
9780143118749
Series
For All the Tea in China
Category
History
Pages
259
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Author
Sarah Rose

Description

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. A first book.

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