If you've got an extra $700 buy The Tea Industry by Nick Hall
http://www.woodhead-publishing.com/f...ricul/tea.html

It's in our metro library system as a reference but across town but
one of these days .... If you want to write a book use Lexus\Nexus
and conduct a few phone interviews.

Jim

(Gyorgy Sajo) wrote in message . com>...
> > Lewis Perin > wrote in message >...

> > I have the same kind of ambivalence about the Evans book. He's
> > obviously a smart guy with a good sense of how the world works. He's
> > done a lot of research, and I, for one, learned quite a bit by reading
> > his book. But tea in China is a vast topic, and it's a small book. I
> > suspect he wrote about what he was interested in, and non-green,
> > non-red was outside his experience.
>
> I agree. After reading the book, I have got an impression af a smart
> all-round guy, who can write about just anything under the sun,
> provided that he is allowed to do a substantial research on the topic.