THE GUNPOWDER GARDENS Jason Goodwin - Travels Through India and China in Search of Tea

From the ancient mercantile splendours of China, to the crumbling city of Calcutta and to London, the tea metropolis, Jason Goodwin pursues the intricate course of nineteenth century tea imperialism revealing a fascinating hidden life of broking and arcane connoisseurship.

This is a used travel book in good, aging condition: front cover looks good with light wear around the edges; rear cover is white and show marks; pages are browning with age; gift message on first page; aging but perfectly readable, scarce and cheap. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

Publisher's blurb: The author's grandmothers spent their lives in China and India, daily observing the imperial custom of afternoon tea. Inspired by their memories, he set off to explore the fast-disappearing relics of their world - an exploration which reached back into the history of the tea trade. In a journey through the lost European cities of the China coast, the crumbling tea city of Calcutta, and the legendary gardens of Bohea and Darjeeling, the author evokes past and present with a sense of the ironies of history, following the tea trade from its origins in the Canton factories through the Opium Wars and the settlement of British India, to its influence in the present day. The book was shortlisted for the 1990 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.

Book Details

Code: SKU1646

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 230

Published: 1993 by Vintage, UK

ISBN: 0099223619

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