Fortune, Robert. 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. Facs. Ed. Pub. Mildmay Books. 1987
pp.xv, 398 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw., with gently sunned spine.
The techniques of tea-growing and manufacture were closely guarded by the Chinese and it was only by disguising himself as Chinese that Fortune learnt their methods which then resulted in the establishment of tea plantations for the East India Company in the Himalayas.
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