Title: For all the tea in China
Description: 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.
Subjects: Description and travel, East India Company, Tea, Travel, Spies, Tea trade, Business intelligence, Biography, History, East india company, China, description and travel, Himalaya mountains, description and travel, Great britain, biography
Places: Himalaya Mountains, Great Britain, China
People: Robert Fortune (1813-1880)
Time periods: 19th century