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For All the Tea in China
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.
- Undertittel
- Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink
- Forfatter
- Sarah Rose
- ISBN
- 9780099493426
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Vekt
- 210 gram
- Utgivelsesdato
- 1.4.2010
- Forlag
- Arrow Books Ltd
- Antall sider
- 288
