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

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

Sarah Rose

272 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink history adventurous informative medium-paced
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A dramatic historical narrative of the man who stole the secret of tea from China In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and plant hunter, to mak...

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