For All the Tea in China. Espionage Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink (Rose Sarah); Arrow Books, 2010

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.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9780099493426
Автор(ы)	Rose Sarah
Вес	0.2
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2010
Жанр	кулинарные рецепты
Издатель	Arrow Books
Издательство	Arrow Books
Кол-во страниц	280
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	280
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Серия	Arrow Books
Тип обложки	мягкая