S1E4 | Robert Fortune’s Wanderings in China (Part 4)

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Written By Laszlo Montgomery

In this excerpt from Robert Fortunes’ first best-selling book, we hear about his first encounter with tea in China, the thing for which he is best remembered. Up until this point, very little was known in the West about how China turned raw leaves into one of the ultimate delights of mankind.

Fortune here begins to solve the riddle.

The book we’re reading from is: Three Years Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China originally published by John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1847

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