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Jason Goodwin takes the reader on an adventurous journey through the serpentine paths of the tea trade-from China to India to London. Evoking both past and present in this lively and intriguing traveler's journal, he traces the development of the tea trade from its origins in Canton factories through the Opium Wars and the settlement of British India. His travels take him from the lost European cities of the China coast to inland China, to Calcutta, to India's high tea gardens in Bohea and Darjeeling. Full of historical and personal detail, A Time for Tea is highly informative, funny, and original. This is more than a travelogue, it is the soul of economic development.

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Jason Goodwin had the imaginative, eccentric, totally admirable idea of making a journey round the history of Tea. . . . Sipping here, sniffing there, climbing to inspect a rare variety in the Chinese mountains, trying to keep pace in a Calcutta auction room, picking over Asia's tea leaves with merchants in Fuzhou and Cochin and Mincing Lane, Goodwin analyses the perfect blend. --Nicholas Wollaston, The Observer

-Jason Goodwin had the imaginative, eccentric, totally admirable idea of making a journey round the history of Tea. . . . Sipping here, sniffing there, climbing to inspect a rare variety in the Chinese mountains, trying to keep pace in a Calcutta auction room, picking over Asia's tea leaves with merchants in Fuzhou and Cochin and Mincing Lane, Goodwin analyses the perfect blend.- --Nicholas Wollaston, The Observer

Jason Goodwin had the imaginative, eccentric, totally admirable idea of making a journey round the history of Tea. Sipping here, sniffing there, climbing to inspect a rare variety in the Chinese mountains, trying to keep pace in a Calcutta auction room, picking over Asia's tea leaves with merchants in Fuzhou and Cochin and Mincing Lane, Goodwin analyses the perfect blend. -Nicholas Wollaston, The Observer <br><br>

Jason Goodwin had the imaginative, eccentric, totally admirable idea of making a journey round the history of Tea. . . . Sipping here, sniffing there, climbing to inspect a rare variety in the Chinese mountains, trying to keep pace in a Calcutta auction room, picking over Asia's tea leaves with merchants in Fuzhou and Cochin and Mincing Lane, Goodwin analyses the perfect blend. </p> --Nicholas Wollaston, <em>The Observer</em> </p>

Jason Goodwin had the imaginative, eccentric, totally admirable idea of making a journey round the history of Tea. Sipping here, sniffing there, climbing to inspect a rare variety in the Chinese mountains, trying to keep pace in a Calcutta auction room, picking over Asia's tea leaves with merchants in Fuzhou and Cochin and Mincing Lane, Goodwin analyses the perfect blend. -Nicholas Wollaston, The Observer

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