For all the tea in China (2010)

Sarah Rose chronicles the daring Victorian botanical heist orchestrated by Scottish plant hunter Robert Fortune on behalf of the British East India Company. Disguised as a mandarin traveller, Fortune ventured deep into forbidden inland mountain provinces of Qing dynasty China to smuggle out prized tea plants, seeds, and manufacturing secrets to colonial India. The result is a sweeping travel adventure that unravels how corporate espionage and imperial trade ambitions fundamentally reshaped the agricultural landscape of Asia.