It had taken Robert Fortune years of extensive planning and three months of arduous travel by boat, sedan chair and on foot ...

Thanks to the East India Company, exotic goods like spices from Indonesia, tea and porcelain from China, became part of everydaylife. Every year, huge merchant ships of the East India Company ...

Saddled with a lot of debt and even bigger inventories, the East India Company needed to unload a lot of tea. So Parliament lowered the tax on company-owned tea and let the company undercut the ...