World History per. 3
The first ten pages of, For All the Tea in China, tells you lots of facts but in a story format. The book starts off talking about Robert Fortune, who is one of the World's greatest plant hunters, and how he managed to survive and be the person to introduce spices from China to Briton. But before the book really dives in to that, it goes on to tell you about the back ground information between Briton and China, and how in the beginning they really were not very fond of each other. The reasons for the hatred between the two, was because China didn't want Briton sending people to China to take their resources, but Briton would sneak people in to China to try and take some of their resources. But you have to remember that Briton and many other countries didn't know a lot about China, they believed it to be very mystical full with magic, making the brits really wanting to try and get in. Eventually China gave in and allowed some of the brits to enter in to their country. This is where Robert Fortune comes back in to the picture, and when they start talking about all the things that he did over in China. Robert Fortune was the first person given leave by the Foreign Office, to travel to China, and They made him kind of a test, because he wasn't important, he was in a way a nobody, but he ended up being just the right man that they needed to send to China. Whilst Fortune was over in China he found many great things that they didn't have in Briton, and he would take note of them, and samples in his diary. Not only did he write about the spices, but he also wrote about the people there, and their culture. The book then goes on to talk about him being over in China for three years, and it also talks about how when Fortune was gone, he basically became a celebrity, he was talked about in the news paper, and just by word. The book then goes on to talk about his return, and when they were just sailing off in their little boat filled with some samples that he had taken in China over the last three years, they encountered tons and tons of pirates. But with his brains and a little luck he and his crew just managed to fend off the pirate army, and in winning they made it back to Briton. The book then ends on Fortune returning to China his next expedition, and that expedition being to change the fate of nations.
This is a picture of Robert Fortune
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