@article{317886,
      author = {Hohenegger, Beatrice.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/317886},
      title = {Liquid jade : the story of tea from east to west /},
      publisher = {St. Martin's Press,},
      abstract = {"Traveling from East to West over thousands of years, tea  has played a variety of roles on the world scene--in  medicine, politics, the arts, culture, and religion. Behind  this most serene of beverages, idolized by poets and  revered in spiritual practices, lie stories of treachery,  violence, smuggling, drug trade, international espionage,  slavery, and revolution. This book explores tea in all its  social and cultural aspects. Entertaining yet informative  and extensively researched, connecting past and present and  spanning five thousand years, this multilayered account of  tea will enhance the experience of a steaming "cuppa" for  tea lovers the world over.--From publisher  description."--From source other than the Library of  Congress},
      recid = {317886},
      pages = {xiii, 320 p. :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2006},
}