Tea: Its History and Mystery: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Tea: Its History and Mystery, credited to Joseph M. Walsh, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Tea: Its History and Mystery by Joseph M. Walsh. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers Utility, not originality, has been aimed at in the compilation of this work. The obstacles and difficulties its author had met with in his endeavors to learn something of the article he was commissioned to sell when he first entered the Tea trade, the almost total lack of knowledge displayed by the average dealer in the commodity, allied to the numerous inquiries for a work containing “all about tea,” first prompted the undertaking. The material was collated at intervals, in a fragmentary manner, covering a period of over twenty years, and arranged amid the many interruptions incident to an active business life, subjected to constant revisions, repeated prunings and innumerable corrections, due mainly to the varying statements and conflicting opinions of admitted authorities in every branch of the subject. Still, as careful and judicious an arrangement of the data has been given as possible, a faithful effort being made to omit nothing that may prove useful, instructive or profitable to the expert, the dealer or general reader. Aware that many facts have been omitted, and many errors committed in its preparation, he still trusts that the pains he has taken to avoid both have not been in vain, that the former may be few, and the latter of no great importance. The work was compiled under impulse, not under inducement, a single line not being intended originally for the market, and is now being published solely for the benefit of those “whom it may concern.” Philadelphia, December, 1892. - Summary by From the Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: Tea: Its History and Mystery
• Author credits: Joseph M. Walsh
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 8:43:20

Catalogue topics

• business
• tea
• cultivation

Track guide

1. 00 - Prefatory — 2:17
2. 01 - Early History — 45:39
3. 02 - Geographical Distribution — 15:41
4. 03 - Botanical Characteristics and Form — 21:20
5. 04 - Cultivation and Preparation — 36:35
6. 05 - Classification and Description part 1 — 41:58
7. 06 - Classification and Description part 2 — 38:51
8. 07 - Classification and Description part 3 — 37:47
9. 08 - Adulteration and Detection — 46:44
10. 09 - Testing, Blending and Preparing part 1 — 43:04
11. 10 - Testing, Blending and Preparing part 2 — 1:09:45
12. 11 - Chemical, Medical and Dietical Properties — 52:28
13. 12 - World’s Production and Consumption — 39:45
14. 13 - Tea Culture, a Probable American Industry — 31:26

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