For all the tea in China : how England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
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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...
PUBLISHED
Old Saybrook, CT : Tantor Audio, p2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 7 sound discs (8 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781400145379
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Rose, Sarah.
SUBJECTS
Fortune, Robert, -- 1813-1880 -- Travel -- China.
East India Company -- History -- 19th century.
Tea trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Tea trade -- China -- History -- 19th century.
Tea -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Tea -- China -- History -- 19th century.
Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Business intelligence -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
China -- Description and travel.
Himalaya Mountains -- Description and travel.
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