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 ...
For All the Tea in China is the remarkable account of Fortune's journeys into China—a thrilling narrative that combines history, geography, botany, natural science, and old-fashioned adventure.
Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter and industrial spy.
For All the Tea in China
Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy.
As the sun sets on the era of sailing ships, British captains Silas Hayes and Eli Lubbock race against a steam ship on the old tea route from Shanghai to Gravesend, England
Journalist Sarah Rose presents a dramatic historical narrative of the man who stole the secret of tea from China.