The Book of Tea

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Anthony Burgess
Flammarion, 1992 - Cooking - 256 pages
Traces the history, myth and rituals of tea growing and tea drinking from the tea gardens of Burma to the tea rooms of London. A beautifully illustrated and designed volume, with its exceptional selection of archival and contemporary documents, makes a delightful contribution to our understanding of the culture and traditions surrounding one of the world's most popular and extraordinary beverages.

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Contents

by Alain Stella
21
TEA BARONS
57
TIME FOR
101
Copyright

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About the author (1992)

Anthony Burgess was born in 1917 in Manchester, England. He studied language at Xaverian College and Manchester University. He had originally applied for a degree in music, but was unable to pass the entrance exams. Burgess considered himself a composer first, one who later turned to literature. Burgess' first novel, A Vision of Battlements (1964), was based on his experiences serving in the British Army. He is perhaps best known for his novel A Clockwork Orange, which was later made into a movie by Stanley Kubrick. In addition to publishing several works of fiction, Burgess also published literary criticism and a linguistics primer. Some of his other titles include The Pianoplayers, This Man and Music, Enderby, The Kingdom of the Wicked, and Little Wilson and Big God. Burgess was living in Monaco when he died in 1993.

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