"Green gold-The empire of the tea"

The book"Green gold, the Empire of the Tea"(Publishing Ocean, 2004) spends us to a fascinante trip by the most stood out cultures of the tea (Japan, China, India, France and the United Kingdom, among other).

The book discovers us the true and exciting history of the tea… In the course of the last 2000 years, this humble wild plant of the family of thecameliasIt has #turn one of the social and economic engines more powerful of our society.

In "Green Gold", his author,Alan McfarlaneIt relates his vivencias beside his mother, Iris, during the years in that the family lived in the Indian province of Assam, world-wide centre of the crop of the tea.

Alan Mcfarlane is anthropologist and historian; his fields of studio are the Himalaya and the Japanese and British history.

At present it gives classes of social anthropology in the University of Cambridge.

Iris Mcfarlane, the mother of Alan, was married during a lot of years with a cultivador of tea in Assam.

It collaborated like editor in History Today and has published numerous works, among which stands out "Assamese and Gaelic Folk Stories".

InTea ShopIt likes us "Green Gold" since it treats of a real history that does us comprise the hardness of the starts of the industry of the tea and the colonial period.

Besides it has a good documentation. The only negative point that find him is the crudeza of some episodes, although we think that they help to comprise the surroundings.

Book recommended for the lovers of the tea.