Myths & Legends of Tea, Volume 1 - Softcover

Robson, Gary D

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965960951 ISBN 13: 9780965960953

Publisher: Proseyr Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Gary Robson is as much in love with the stories of different tea styles as he is with the tea itself. He is frequently found standing in his tea shop telling the tales: the poor farmer who cleaned up a temple and was given a special tea plant by the goddess Guanyin as his reward, the mandarin who added bergamot oil to an English earl’s tea to compensate for the calcium in the water and created one of the western world’s most popular teas, the tea master who performed one last tea ceremony after he was ordered by his daimyo to commit seppuku.

Gary has taken each of these tales and retold it in his own style. Some of the stories are entirely legend, their origins lost in the mists of time. Some are based heavily on fact. Some will be familiar to any tea aficionado. Some are purely the product of his own imagination. In all of them, he focuses on building a sense of the time, the setting, and the characters — bringing the stories of tea to life. In his Myths and Legends of Tea series, his wondrous stories are put into print for the first time.

This first volume in the series features seven stories, each accompanied by a profile of the tea featured in the story. The stories span six countries (China, Japan, England, U.S., Taiwan, and Australia) and over 4,700 years.

About this title

About the Author

Gary Robson is a tea blogger and author in the booming metropolis of Red Lodge, Montana, population 2,300. His daughter currently runs their family-owned tea business. He has written thirty books, a half-dozen tech manuals, entries for two dictionaries, stories for anthologies, and hundreds of magazine, newspaper, and web articles.He started out in the technology world and became a vocal advocate of closed captioning on television for deaf and hard-of-hearing people. In his endless quest to figure out what he's going to be when he grows up, he has been granted three patents, teamed up with family members to start an electronics business and a software company; owned and operated a small newspaper, a bookstore, and a tea business; taught computer science; raised some cattle; done a little standup comedy; put on seminars all over the country; given a TEDx talk; and competed in rodeos. He's currently writing full-time. Luckily for him, Gary's wife and kids are good at smiling tolerantly and putting up with him.

Edition details

• Publisher: Proseyr Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0965960951
• ISBN 13: 9780965960953
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 110