For all the tea in China : how England stole the world's favorite drink and changed history

• Publisher: Penguin USA;Viking
• Year: 2009,2010
• Leaves: 261
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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.

Abstract: 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

✦ Table of Contents

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

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