Robert Fortune

A Journey to the Tea Countries of China

Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills; With a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in T

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1852, this travel narrative charts Robert Fortune's search for the best tea specimens in China.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 601g
• ISBN-13: 9781108046411
• ISBN-10: 110804641X
• Artikelnr.: 35529673

Autorenporträt

William de Lange studied Japanese language and culture at the universities of Leiden and Waseda. He is the author and translator of a number of books on Japanese history, culture, and language.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Arrive at Hong-kong
2. My object in coming north
3. Leave Hang-chow-foo
4. City of Wae-ping
5. Sung-lo-shan
6. My reception in the house of Wang's father
7. Kingtang or Silver Island
8. Foo-chow-foo
9. Leave Ning-po for the Bohea Mountains
10. City of Chang-shan and its trade
11. Town of Hokow
12. First view of the Bohea Mountains
13. Woo-e-shan
14. Stream of 'nine windings'
15. Some advice to the reader
16. Geography of the tea-shrub
17. Inn at Pouching-hien
18. A celebrated Buddhist temple
19. Tea-plants, etc., taken to Hong-kong
20. Safe arrival of tea-plants in India
21. Experiments with tea-seeds
22. Ordered to inspect the tea-plantations in India.