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

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

Sarah Rose

7 hours, 42 minutes • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink history adventurous informative medium-paced
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In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and plant hunter, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China-territory forbidden to foreigners-to...

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