For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula of the World's Favourite Drink

Sarah Rose

In the aftermath of the Opium Wars, Scotsman Robert Fortune - botanist-turned-secret agent - infiltrated China's hostile mountain regions disguised as a Chinese merchant with little to guide him but his wits and a suspect crew. His goal was to steal China's most fiercely protected treasure, a plant as s...