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Green Gold by Alan Macfarlane
45.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
This story reveals how an East Himalayan camelia bush became the world's favourite drink. Readers can discover how the tea plant came to be transplanted onto every continent and relive the stories of the people whose lives were transformed through contact with the green leaf.
Green Gold: The Empire of Tea by Alan Macfarlane
26.95 NZD
29.99 (10% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good
Apart from water, tea is more widely consumed than any other food or drink. Tens of billions of cups are drunk every day. Yet only two thousand years ago it was only chewed or drunk by a handful of monks in China and some tribal peoples in south east Asia. How and why has tea conquered the world? Tea wa ...Show more
The Glass Bathyscaphe by Alan Macfarlane
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
The story of the development of glass and the effects it had on every aspect of culture from astronomy and navigation to the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution. A famous anthropologist and an industrialist have combined to write a tantalising history of glass and how it has driven much of the ...Show more
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