Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West by Beatrice Hohenegger
English | April 22nd, 2014 | ISBN: 0312333285, 0312333293 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 6.85 MB
Traveling from East to West over thousands of years, tea has played a variety of roles on the world scene – in medicine, politics, the arts, culture, and religion. Behind this most serene of beverages, idolized by poets and revered in spiritual practices, lie stories of treachery, violence, smuggling, drug trade, international espionage, slavery, and revolution.