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Author Rose, Sarah.

Title For all the tea in China : [how England stole the world's favorite drink and changed history] / Sarah Rose.

Publication Info. [Old Saybrook, Conn.] : Tantor Audio, [2010]
℗2010

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  CDBK 382.4137 ROSE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  CDBOOK 382.41 ROS    Check Shelf
Description 7 audio discs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 080000
Note Subtitle from container.
Performer Read by Sarah Rose.
Note Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Summary 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.
Note GMD: sound recording.
Subject Tea trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Tea trade -- China -- History -- 19th century.
Tea -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Tea -- China -- History -- 19th century.
Fortune, Robert, 1813-1880 -- Travel -- China.
Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Business intelligence -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
East India Company -- History -- 19th century.
China -- Description and travel.
Himalaya Mountains -- Description and travel.
Genre/Form Audiobooks.
ISBN 9781400145379 lib. ed. $59.99
9781400115372 retail $29.99
1400145376 lib. ed.
140011537X retail
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