The Gunpowder Gardens by Jason Goodwin

The Gunpowder Gardens by Jason Goodwin

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.

Prue Goodwin is a lecturer on literacy education and children's books. Having spent many years working at the University of Reading, she is now freelance as a lecturer to education professionals and a consultant to children's publishers.

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ISBN 13	9780099223610
ISBN 10	0099223619
Titel	The Gunpowder Gardens
Autor	Jason Goodwin
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Vintage Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	1993-05-20
Seitenanzahl	230
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