| The Biography of Tea Contributor(s): Gleason, Carrie (Author) |
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ISBN: 077872493X ISBN-13: 9780778724933 Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $27.54 Product Type: Library Binding - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: This fascinating new book relates the thousands-year-old history of tea and its sometimes tumultuous trade. Find out how different teas are grown, harvested, and sold and how the trade of tea has changed the world. Topics include - tea's importance in ancient China and Japan - the European tea craze of the 1600s and the beginnings of the European tea trade - the practice of holding "afternoon tea" - teahouses, gardens, Russian tea, tea dances and tea taxes - tea and the American Revolution - merchant companies and China tea clippers |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology - Agriculture - Juvenile Nonfiction | History - Exploration & Discovery - Juvenile Nonfiction | Cooking & Food |
| Dewey: 633.72 |
| LCCN: 2007003459 |
| Series: How Did That Get Here? |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 8.65" W x 10.99" (0.74 lbs) 32 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 114903 Reading Level: 6.8 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 1.0 |