Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World by Markman Ellis, Richard Coulter, Matthew Mauger

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulter, Matthew Mauger

288 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Although tea had been known and consumed in China and Japan for centuries, it was only in the seventeenth century that Londoners first began drinking it. Over the next two hundred years, its stimulating properties seduced all of British society, a...

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