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For all the tea in China : espionage, empire and the secret formula for the world's favourite drink

Rose, Sarah2009
Books, Manuscripts
This title presents the story of Scotsman Robert Fortune - botanist-turned-secret agent - and how he infiltrated China's hostile mountain regions disguised as a Chinese merchant. His goal was to steal China's most fiercely protected treasure, a plant as seductive as the soporific poppy: Camellia sinensis or, more simply, tea.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Hutchinson, 2009.
Collation:
256 p.
ISBN:
0091797063 (invalid)11.99 (invalid)9780091921309 (pbk)11.99 (invalid)0091921309 (pbk)9780091797065 (hbk)
Dewey class:
A633.720951
Language:
English
BRN:
1069861
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