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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 guarded secrets of tea. For centuries, China had been the world's sole tea manufacturer. Britain purchased this fuel for its Empire by trading opium to the Chinese - a poisonous relationship Britain fought two destructive wars to sustain. The East India Company had profited lavishly as the middleman, but now it was sinking, having lost its monopoly to trade tea. Its salvation, it thought, was to establish its own plantations in the Himalayas of British India. There were just two problems: India had no tea plants worth growing, and the company wouldn't have known what to do with them if it had. Hence Robert Fortune's daring trip. The Chinese interior was off-limits and virtually unknown to the West, but that's where the finest tea was grown - the richest oolongs, soochongs and pekoes. And the Emperor aimed to keep it that way.

A collection of short fiction and non-fictional essays, many appearing in print for the first time, from legendary humorist and all-round literary behemoth Tom Robbins. Tributes, musings, art critiques and poems dealing with everything from Leonard Cohen to tomato sandwiches flit deftly across the pages as the writer who counts Thomas Pynchon among his numerous fans works his magic once again. Only half a dozen years ago, the gestural interfaces introduced in the film "Minority Report" were science fiction. Now, because of technological, social, and market forces, we see similar interfaces deployed everywhere. "Designing Gestural Interfaces" will help you enter this new world of possibilities. In a powerful combination of both humour and heartbreak, this dazzling novel weaves little-known history, and a perfect love story, through the vast sweep of the Second World War - daring us to understand that, against the great theatre of world events, it is For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink ebook pdf the intimate losses, the small battles, the daily human triumphs, that change us most.

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Author: Sarah Rose
Number of Pages: 288 pages
Published Date: 01 Dec 2010
Publisher: Cornerstone
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780099493426
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