Apart from water, tea is more widely consumed than any other food or drink. Tens of billions of cups are drunk every day. How and why has tea conquered the world? Tea was the first global product. It altered life-styles, religions, etiquette and aesthetics. It raised nations and shattered empires. Economies were changed out of all recognition. Diseases were thwarted by the magical drink and cities founded on it. The industrial revolution was fuelled by tea, sealing the fate of the modern world. Green Gold is a remarkable detective story of how an East Himalayan camellia bush became the world's favourite drink. Discover how the tea plant came to be transplanted onto every continent and relive the stories of the men and women whose lives were transformed out of all recognition through contact with the deceptively innocuous green leaf.
Vorwort
The definitive history of the world's favourite drink
Autorentext
Vorwort
The definitive history of the world's favourite drink
Autorentext
Alan & Iris Macfarlane
Titel
Green Gold
Untertitel
The Empire of Tea
EAN
9781448116201
ISBN
978-1-4481-1620-1
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
30.11.2011
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
0.98 MB
Anzahl Seiten
320
Jahr
2011
Untertitel
Englisch
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