For all the tea in China : how England stole the world's favorite drink and changed history
Sarah Rose
Bok · Engelsk · 2011
| Utgitt | London : Penguin , 2011
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| Omfang | xii, 259 s.
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| Opplysninger | Opprinnelig utgitt London : Hutchinson, 2009, med tittel For all the tea in China : espionage, empire, and the secret formula for the world's favourite drink. Også utgitt New York : Viking Penguin, 2010, med nåværende tittel. - 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. - 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.
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| ISBN | 0670021520. - 9780143118749. - 9780670021529
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