Curiosi-tea presents the world of tea in a fresh voice
with a distinctly zany approach to history, cultures and spelling.
Going well beyond the acceptable bounds of a nice, well-behaved tea
book, Curiosi-tea links tea with diverse topics such as
radioactivity, sex, nano-technology, fairy tales, music, politics,
health and C(c)hina.
If you are an avid devourer of anecdotal history with an
interest in East-West relations and an appreciation for puns and
relentless dry humour, this book is for you!
Curiosi-tea will appeal not only to tea lovers, but
anyone interested in an easy-to-read, entertaining approach to
world history. Beautifully designed and laid out in short chapters
with eye-catching graphics, Curiosi-tea is a laugh-out-loud
read, touching on topics both fascinating and curious. In addition
to solid research on the history and varieties of tea,
Curiosi-tea contains cartoon-like illustrations, maps and
tongue-in-cheek poetry, presenting quirky anecdotes on almost
anything you care to think of. It begins in antiqui-tea and
ends with infini-tea and covers a great deal of
immorali-tea and frivoli-tea in between - with topics
as diverse as the migration of Buddhism, Japanese tomb raiders in
Korea, Russian colonialism in Persia, the British Raj, the Opium
wars, the green tea habits of America, the naugh-tea
innuendos of tea, Mao’s dental hygiene, indigenous land rights in
Australia, and Dutch botanical espionage… to name a few.
Curiosi-tea is narrated by three unlikely characters,
vying for control of the narrative: Camellia Cha, the flirtatious,
irrepressible Avatar of Tea; AMN, a nerdish and naïve tea-drinking
bookworm; and Herstorian, a mysterious entity who brings a dry
authoritarian voice to the text.
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