萨拉·罗斯Sarah Rose，作家，现居住在纽约，生长于芝加哥。罗斯分别从哈佛大学和芝加哥大学获得学位。她是美国纽约文学基金会的受助者。《改变世界史的中国茶叶》（For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World 's Favorite Drink and Changed History）是她的处女作。 译者：孟驰，福建农林大学东方学院（现福州工商学院）英语语言文学学士，译著《迦太基必须毁灭》

A dramatic historical narrative of the man who stole the secret of tea from China In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and plant hunter, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China-territory forbidden to foreigners-to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea horticult...(展开全部)

A dramatic historical narrative of the man who stole the secret of tea from China In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and plant hunter, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China-territory forbidden to foreigners-to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea horticult...(展开全部)

Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China - territory forbidden to foreigners - to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea. For centuries, China had been the world's sole tea manufacturer. Britain purchased this fuel for its Empire by tra...(展开全部)

卡西亚·圣克莱尔（Kassia St Clair） 英国作家、文化史学家，热销书《色彩的秘密生活》作者。 在牛津和布里斯托尔学习女性服装史和化妆史，毕业后长期为《经济学人》《家园与花园》《新政治家》撰写文章，也在英国广播公司（BBC）、美国国家公共电台（NPR）等电台做节目，在达拉斯艺术博物馆、维多利亚和艾伯特博物馆等博物馆开设讲座，所述均有关色彩、设计、织物与文化史。 马博 译者，北京外国语大学英美文学方向硕士毕业，担任文学编辑的同时喜爱翻译，译有《很高兴遇见你，小猫比利》并养有两猫，现居北京。

A new history of ingenuity from the author of The Secret Lives of Colour. From the mummies of Ancient Egypt; via the silken dragon robes of Imperial China and the woollen sails of Viking longboats to the Indian calicoes and chintzes that powered the Industrial Revolution (and sparked more than one war); arriving finally at the lab-blended fibres that have allowed astronauts to ...(展开全部)

One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his prose, poetry, political acumen and oratorical skills. Among the most successful and enthralling histories ever written, his "History of England" won instantaneous success following the publication of its first volumes in 1849, and was rapidly translated in...(展开全部)

This is the remarkable story of tea and its uses from ancient times to the present. The narrative takes the reader from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the splendor of the Tang and Song Dynasties in China, from the tea ceremony aesthetics of medieval Japan to the fabled tea and horse trade of Central Asia, from the advent of Britain's love affair with tea to the tea party that...(展开全部)

中国是世界大的酒类生产国和消费国之一，酒精渗透到其文化的各个方面，从传统和文学到商业和战争。然而，对外界来说，中国知名的烈酒白酒仍然是个谜。这种情况即将改变，因为白酒现在已在国外的鸡尾酒吧供应。 《醉在中国》讲述了德里克·桑德豪斯探索世界上古老的饮酒文化的旅程。他走遍全国和世界各地，与酿酒师、啤酒酿造师、江湖骗子、考古学家和普通饮酒者会面。他研究了酒精塑造中国社会及其仪式的多种方式。他参观了生产车间、卡拉 OK 厅、火锅店和地下酒吧。一路上，他发现了一个跨越九千多年的传统，并探讨了最近的经济和政治发展如何首次将中国酒精推向国外。随着中国社会日益国际化，其饮酒文化也须适应时代。西方是否也能适应并与中国举杯共饮？阅读《醉在中国》一书，你就能找到答案。 China is one of the world's leading producers and co...(展开全部)

Plants have transformed our planet over the last 470 million years as they invaded the land and diversified into the astonishing variety we know today. But their influence has reached even further: they have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants are dynamic components of o...(展开全部)