"If there was one thing that this book did better than any other tea history book out there it was in presenting us with new areas of knowledge and different tellings of familiar stories in the great and long history of the plant, beverage, and customs of tea. From the Mongolian tribes to the Australian outback, we were taken to lands, explored customs, and followed the progress of the humble leaf in areas that are rarely otherwise explored. Somehow, the clearly extensive academic research behin




