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For all the tea in China : how England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History

Rose, Sarah. Book on CD - 2010 BOCD 641.337 Ro 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 3.7 out of 5

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Call Number: BOCD 641.337 Ro
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Read by Sarah Rose.
Rose's remarkable account follows the journey of Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, who was deployed by the British East India Company to steal China's tea secrets in 1848. This thrilling narrative combines history, geography, and old-fashioned adventure.

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Typical romance of colonial loot submitted by chakumar on December 22, 2015, 11:44am A colonial story replicated the world over...driven by pure greed and incidental adventure, a publicly traded corporation (East India Company) supported by democratically elected government and the army and blessed by the British Crown, engages in a colossal theft of Chinese botanical treasures funded by smuggled opium from India, to set up nursery gardens in Europe and tea plantations in India! Fascinating story one way or the other...