Lead Review

  • Book: For all the Tea in China
  • Location: China, India
  • Author: Sarah Rose

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She likes her hero, Robert Fortune and has a love affair with Camellia Sinensis. This is a wonderful evocation of a distant era of British colonialism and the discovery of the Chinese secret of tea cultivation. Beautiful!

Had your cup of tea this morning? If not, the next time you take a gulp of PG Tips or a sip of single estate orange pekoe you might want to send up a prayer of thanks for the dogged Scotsman who made it all possible, Robert Fortune … Rose’s account is full of colour The Times

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