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An edition of For all the tea in China (2010)

For all the tea in China

how England stole the world's favorite drink and changed history

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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.

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Viking
Language
English

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Subjects
Description and travel, East India Company, Tea, Travel, Spies, Tea trade, Business intelligence, Biography, History, East india company, China, description and travel, Himalaya mountains, description and travel, Great britain, biography
People
Robert Fortune (1813-1880)
Places
Himalaya Mountains, Great Britain, China
Times
19th century

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2010, Viking
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Table of Contents

Prologue
Min River, China, 1845
East India House, City of London, 12 January 1848
Chelsea Physic Garden, 7 May 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.

Edition Notes

First published: London : Hutchinson, 2009, with title For all the tea in China : espionage, empire, and the secret formula for the world's favourite drink.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Genre
Biography

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Dewey Decimal Class
382/.413720941
Library of Congress
HD9198.G72 R67 2010

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23929325M
ISBN 13
9780670021529
LCCN
2009041482

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July 31, 2019 Edited by MARC Bot associate edition with work OL15596846W
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