Author Sarah Rose: For All The Tea in China February 10, 2011

In 1848, the British East India Company engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish botanist, to make a clandestine trip into the Chinese interior-a territory forbidden to foreigners-to steal closely guarded secrets of tea horticulture and manufacturing. This remarkable account of Fortune's journeys combines history, geography, botany and adventure into one of the most daring acts of corporate espionage in history.

For All the Tea in China was named one of the Best Books of 2010 by Booklist and has received rave reviews from the Washington Post Book Review, San Francisco Book Review and NPR's All Things Considered.

Sarah Rose holds degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago and has worked as a journalist for several newspapers. She will make her TV debut in August as part of a reality show depicting the joys of Jewish dating in Manhattan.

"This story is nothing less than remarkable." San Francisco Book Review

"A remarkably riveting tale." Booklist Editor's Choice Pick, Best Books of 2010

Visit Sarah's website at www.sarahrose.com

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