Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China. Including a visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries: With an account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc.

Fortune, Robert

Published by John Murray, London, 1847

About this Item

Very Good in publishers original salmon colored cloth. Pictorial half- title, engraved map, 3 tinted lithographed plates and 12 other illustrations. Interior very clean and bright! Some fraying at extremities of binding (see photos) but overall an incredibly nice copy of this very rare work! In the wake of the 1842 Treaty of Nanking, the Royal Horticultural Society hired the Scottish botanist Robert Fortune (1812-1880) to gather interesting and commercially viable plants from the Chinese interior. This trip culminated in to the making of Three Years Wandering in the Northern Provinces of China, and records his observations of the tea industry in the region of the newly-established treaty port at Ningbo. In 1848, Fortune made a second lengthy visit to China at the behest of the East India Company, this time charged with obtaining tea seeds and plants, as well as the secrets of tea manufacture, with a view to the establishment of a viable tea industry in British India, a task at which he was dramatically successful. I am listing my whole collection of tea industry books on ABE - check them out in my store!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China. Including a visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries: With an account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc.
• Publisher: John Murray, London
• Publication Date: 1847
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good