Remarkable" and "astonishing," says Jan Morris of Roy Moxham's account of his search for "one of the least-known wonders of Queen Victoria's India," and John Keay finds it "a compelling read, simply t
From the plantation to the breakfast table—the stimulating history of the world’s obsession with tea from its first discovery in China to the present day. Moxham first became fascinated b
This is the quest for a lost wonder of the world, in the author's words his 'ridiculous obsession', arose from the chance discovery of some dusty memoirs that told of a mighty hedge spanning the India
