On 28 May 2007 17:25:25 -0700, pgwk > wrote:

>I am always looking for good books on tea and finding very few. I
>offer to assemble a bibliography for this group if you will let me
>know books you have found interesting and useful, with a short summary
>of what makes the book special

I highly recommend "Tea in China" by John C. Evans, the best
Engish-language treatise on tea's history that I am aware of. Read it,
and you'll learn a few things about Chinese history too.

Two other books about Chinese tea are also worth mentioning:
"The Way of Tea" by Lam Kam Chuen and
"All the tea in China" by Cow & Kramer

Lars,
Bergen, Norway