Book: The Biography Of Tea This fascinating new book relates the thousands-year-old history of tea and its sometimes tumultuous trade. Find out how different teas are grown, harvested, and sold and how the trade of tea has changed the world. Topics include
- tea's importance in ancient China and Japan
- the European tea craze of the 1600s and the beginnings of the European tea trade
- the practice of holding "afternoon tea"
- teahouses, gardens, Russian tea, tea dances and tea taxes
- tea and the American Revolution
- merchant companies and China tea clippers
Details of Book: The Biography Of Tea Book: The Biography Of Tea
Author: Carrie Gleason
ISBN: 077872493X
ISBN-13: 9780778724933
, 978-0778724933
Binding: Library Binding
Publishing Date: Mar 2007
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 32
Language: English