Thanks Lars,

I have the Evans book already on order -- it has been recommended to
me by svereal people -- and will order the other two.

Let me recommend a book I haven't seen mentioned that is very good on
Indian history. It's Roy Moxham's Tea: Addiction and Empire (I haven't
got the title quite right -- we old guys get halfzheimer's memory
lapses quite often.) Hobhouse's Seeds of Change is brilliant, though
it includes teas as only one of the seeds and devotes just a section
to it. The others are quinine, sugar, the potato, cotton, and in the
new edition coca. It's mesmerizing and especially insightful on the
quinine/sugar/slave trade links.



On May 29, 4:09 pm, Lars I. Mehlum >
wrote:
> 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