Darjeeling: The Colorful History and Precarious Fate of the World's Most Famous Tea

by Jeff Koehler

Book Overview

Darjeeling's tea bushes run across a mythical landscape steeped with the religious, the sacred, and the picturesque. Planted at high elevation in the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, in an area of northern India bound by Nepal to the west, Bhutan to the east, and Sikkim to the north, the linear rows of brilliant green, waist-high shrubs that coat the steep slopes and valleys around this Victorian hill town produce only a fraction of the world's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620405121
• ISBN13: 9781620405123
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.3"