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For All the Tea in China
- Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink
Engelsk Paperback

For All the Tea in China

- Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink
Engelsk Paperback

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Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China - territory forbidden to foreigners - to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea.

For centuries, China had been the world''s sole tea manufacturer. Britain purchased this fuel for its Empire by trading opium to the Chinese - a poisonous relationship Britain fought two destructive wars to sustain. The East India Company had profited lavishly as the middleman, but now it was sinking, having lost its monopoly to trade tea. Its salvation, it thought, was to establish its own plantations in the Himalayas of British India.

There were just two problems: India had no tea plants worth growing, and the company wouldn''t have known what to do with them if it had.

Hence Robert Fortune''s daring trip. The Chinese interior was off-limits and virtually unknown to the West, but that''s where the finest tea was grown - the richest oolongs, soochongs and pekoes. And the Emperor aimed to keep it that way.





Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9780099493426
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
009949342X
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Udg. Dato:
1 apr 2010
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
130mm
Højde:
198mm
Forlag:
Cornerstone
Oplagsdato:
1 apr 2010
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