For All the Tea in China

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Sarah Rose

288

2010

Paperback / softback

Cornerstone

Brūkšninis kodas: 9780099493426

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.