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S'està carregant… The True History of Tea (edició 2009)de Victor Mair, Victor H. Mair (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. An excellent survey of tea, its preparation, etc. over the last two millennia. It's like a narrative encyclopedia. There is a lot of information here. It's strung together rather loosely, but well enough to make a pleasant read from start to finish. It's got an index and uh-oh a very nice bibliography. Sometimes information is repeated to fill in details in different contexts. It never really dives in deep, but really touches briefly on a very wide range of subjects. I'd seen pictures of samovars and knew they were somehow involved with hot water and tea. The idea of a chimney going up the middle, nope, never had any idea about that! Just one tid-bit I learned from this book. A bit of internet search from there... hey look, Kelly Kettles! People are still making samovarish devices, and good for camping! Tea on the trail - that's style!
If you are interested in the history of tea -- especially a full world history of tea, and not just one that starts when tea came to Europe -- this book is for you. It is reasonably complete (with the exceptions noted here), but not so extensive that it is a chore to finish. The fact that at least one of the authors can read and translate original Chinese documents really lifts this book above most others of its kind. Interview on page 1. Excerpts on page 2.
World-renowned sinologist Victor H. Mair teams up with journalist Erling Hoh to tell the story of this remarkable beverage and its uses, from ancient times to the present, from East to West.For the first time in a popular history of tea, the Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan, and Mongolian annals have been thoroughly consulted and carefully sifted. The resulting narrative takes the reader from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the splendor of the Tang and Song Dynasties, from the tea ceremony politics of medieval Japan to the fabled tea and horse trade of Central Asia and the arrival of the first European vessels in Far Eastern waters.Through the centuries, tea has inspired artists, enhanced religious experience, played a pivotal role in the emergence of world trade, and triggered cataclysmic events that altered the course of humankind. How did green tea become the national beverage of Morocco? And who was the beautiful Emma Hart, immortalized by George Romney in his painting The Tea-maker of Edgware Road? No other drink has touched the daily lives of so many people in so many different ways.The True History of Tea brings these disparate aspects together in an entertaining tale that combines solid scholarship with an eye for the quirky, offbeat paths that tea has strayed upon during its long voyage. It celebrates the common heritage of a beverage we have all come to love, and plays a crucial part in the work of dismantling that obsolete dictum: East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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It was almost impossible to put the book down - it is detailed, enthralling, beautifully written, and fascinating.
And I drank an awful lot of tea while reading it... ( )