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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
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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.

          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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          Weight210 g
          Dimensions198 × 130 × 18 mm
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