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9781108046411

A Journey to the Tea Countries of China

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  • ISBN13:

    9781108046411

  • ISBN10:

    110804641X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-04-26
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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Summary

'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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Arrive at Hong-kong
My object in coming north
Leave Hang-chow-foo
City of Wae-ping
Sung-lo-shan
My reception in the house of Wang's father
Kingtang or Silver Island
Foo-chow-foo
Leave Ning-po for the Bohea Mountains
City of Chang-shan and its trade
Town of Hokow
First view of the Bohea Mountains
Woo-e-shan
Stream of 'nine windings'
Some advice to the reader
Geography of the tea-shrub
Inn at Pouching-hien
A celebrated Buddhist temple
Tea-plants, etc., taken to Hong-kong
Safe arrival of tea-plants in India
Experiments with tea-seeds
Ordered to inspect the tea-plantations in India
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