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Book Review: For All the Tea in China by Sarah Rose
For all the Tea in China by Sarah Rose reviewed by Brooke Gschwind

“For all the Tea in China -How England Stole the World 's Favorite Drink and Changed History

” as the subtitle foreshadows the story already. Before I had even read the book I assumed it

would be a journey of betrayal, action and only closed off to the events that occur re 's as Robert

Fortune underhandedly takes china 's precious tea right from underneath they 're own noses.

But little did I know that it Sarah Rose has incorporated all the events essential to the to

cultivation of tea in the mid Nineteenth-century. In Audition to this Historical non-fiction story that

may be boring to others, or as one of my fellow classmates would put it “I 've been spacing out

throughout the book” I Believe that Sarah Rose Has painted a Vivid image of the nineteenth century,

with out a single page, paragraph, or sentence wasted with unnecessary knowledge to the reader 's view

from how the Royal Horticultural Society of England and the East India Company affected England 's

economy, traditions were also created based off of tea shipment such as the Annual Tea race. And how

World Changed England 's East India Company to officially close down.

Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and world 's best plant hunter, famously known for

his The British tea Heist which Sarah Rose writes passionately and was inspired by Scott Anderson in

this book, and in audition famous for bringing back and documenting new oriental plants from China

to England. Such as lovely tree peonies, and the uniquely streaked ornamental plant Hosta

Fortunei. which was named after Robert fortune himself along with some other oriental plants found

under his own travels not during the multiple expeditions he was sent to do by the East India

Company. Fortune while undergoing the process in sending India seeds that are healthy and

germinated..... but how?Fortune
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