Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China
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Chapter 02
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Chapter 03
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Chapter 04
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Chapter 05
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Chapter 06
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Chapter 07
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Chapter 08
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Chapter 09
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11
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Chapter 12
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Chapter 13
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Chapter 15
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Chapter 16
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Chapter 17
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Chapter 20
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Chapter 21
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Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China (1847) is a public domain work.
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Tea leaves, cotton fields and garden plants give Robert Fortune's account of China its practical focus. Appointed botanical collector to the Horticultural Society of London, he arrived in 1843 and describes his travels in this 1847 book. The chapters move through Hong-kong, Chusan, Ning-po and Shanghae, combining observations of harbours and towns with accounts of crops, nurseries, weather and the work of collecting plants.
His treatment of tea follows the harvest from young spring buds to later gatherings, then into cottages and sheds where leaves are prepared. Family groups picking on hillsides, baskets of split bamboo and the need to preserve the leaves' aroma make the process concrete. Alongside these details are sections on rice cultivation, mulberries and silk production. Readers interested in agricultural history can follow a visiting collector's observations while also encountering his period assumptions about Chinese life.
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- Robert Fortune
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