For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink by Sarah Rose

For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink

Sarah Rose

288 pages 2009

11 editions

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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 guard...

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