A Short Account of Tea and the Tea Trade
Subtitle: With a Map of the China Tea Districts
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: November 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 107
ISBN-13: 9781402157486
Subjects: tea,Tea Trade,China,Tea Districts,Reginald,Hanson; Business & Economics / Exports & Imports; Cooking / General
First sentence: CONSIDERING the enormous and yearly increasing consumption of tea, not only in England and the English speaking communities, but also in nearly the whole of the civilized globe, it is somewhat curious to observe that, as compared with many other articles of commerce held on high esteem, its introduction is but as a thing of yesterday, whilst even in its native country authentic history gives it a far less ancient pedigree than can be indisputably ascribed all the world over to its more captivating if more dangerous rival-Wine.