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A Journey to the Tea Countries of China - Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills; with a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya Mountains (Paperback)
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A Journey to the Tea Countries of China - Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills; with a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya Mountains (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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Total price: R1,306
Discovery Miles: 13 060
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'My object is to give a peep into the Celestial Empire, to show its
strange hills and romantic valleys, its rivers and canals ... and
its strange and interesting people.' Robert Fortune (1813-80), the
author of several books on China, was a keen botanist. He first
went to China for the Royal Horticultural Society, but soon
returned on behalf of the East India Company in order to collect
tea specimens for the British government's plantations in the
Himalayas. In this entertaining account, first published in 1852,
Fortune includes stories of how he disguised himself in Chinese
clothes to gain access to districts barred to Europeans, of
watching farmers sail in what seemed to be wash-tubs, and the
bizarre dyeing process that saw large quantities of Prussian Blue
and gypsum poured into green tea. Full of panoramic descriptions
and engaging anecdotes, this book is ideal for historians and
modern-day travellers alike.
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