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

Name: For All the Tea in China How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
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ISBN: 9780143118749

ISBN-10: 0143118749

ISBN-13: 9780143118749

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Authors: Sarah Rose

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"If ever there was a book to read in the company of a nice cuppa, this is it." -The Washington Post In the dramatic story of one of the greatest acts of corporate espionage ever committed, Sarah Rose recounts the fascinating, unlikely circumstances surrounding a turning point in economic history. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the British East India Company faced the loss of its monopoly on the fantastically lucrative tea trade with China, forcing it to make the drastic decision of sending Scottish botanist Robert Fortune to steal the crop from deep within China and bring it back to British plantations in India. Fortune's danger-filled odyssey, magnificently recounted here, reads…

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List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/22/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.70" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Sarah Rose is a writer living in New York. She was educated at Harvard and the University of Chicago.



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


Acknowledgments


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