Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World by Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, Markman Ellis

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World

Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, Markman Ellis

328 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Although tea had been known and consumed in China and Japan for centuries, it was only in the seventeenth century that Londoners first began drinking it. Over the next two hundred years, its stimulating properties seduced all of British society, a...

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