Two visits to the tea countries of China and the British tea plantations in the Himalaya:
With a narrative of adventures, and a full description of the culture of the tea plant, the agriculture, horticulture, and botany of China.
Stock Code 114526
London, Murray, 1853
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Robert Fortune's carefully edited version of his two principle works: Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China, and Journey to the Tea Countries, omitting meteorological reports and 'dry botanical details', in order to make his work available to a wider audience.
One of the greatest of British travellers to the Far East, Fortune, a plant-hunter gathered many valuable specimens. His expeditions, undertaken on behalf of the East India Company, to the heart of the tea producing areas of China, were also journeys of exploration as Fortune was the first European to venture here. The seeds and plants he gathered were shipped to India and became the foundation of the plantations in Darjeeling and Assam.
Third edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, xiv, 315; ix, 299 pp., folding map, 29 illustrations including additional pictorial title-pages printed in red, some full-page, original brown pictorial cloth gilt, small repairs to spine extremities, a very good copy.
Cordier Sinica 2116.
One of the greatest of British travellers to the Far East, Fortune, a plant-hunter gathered many valuable specimens. His expeditions, undertaken on behalf of the East India Company, to the heart of the tea producing areas of China, were also journeys of exploration as Fortune was the first European to venture here. The seeds and plants he gathered were shipped to India and became the foundation of the plantations in Darjeeling and Assam.
Third edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, xiv, 315; ix, 299 pp., folding map, 29 illustrations including additional pictorial title-pages printed in red, some full-page, original brown pictorial cloth gilt, small repairs to spine extremities, a very good copy.
Cordier Sinica 2116.
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