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For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World’s Favourite Drink

For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World’s Favourite Drink

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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 centu...

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Product ID:	9780099493426
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	For All the Tea in China
Subtitle:	Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink
Authors:	Author: Sarah Rose
Page Count:	288
Subjects:	General and world history, General & world history, History, Espionage and secret services, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Espionage & secret services, China
Description:	Select Guide Rating 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. 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.
Imprint Name:	Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher Name:	Cornerstone
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2010-04-01

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Weight	210 g
Dimensions	198 × 130 × 18 mm