Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries, With an Account of the ... Chinese, New Plants, Etc
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By Robert Fortune 18 Jun, 2019
When the news of the peace with China first reached England, in the autumn of 1842, I obtained the appointment of Botanical Collector to the Horticultural Society of London, and proceeded to China in that capacity early in the spring of the following ... Read more
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Robert Fortune (16 September 1812 – 13 April 1880)[1][2] was a Scottish botanist, plant hunter, and traveler, best known for stealing tea plants from China in the employment of the British East Indi...
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