Author:Robert Fortune
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Scottish botanist who introduced tea cultivation from China to India
Robert Fortune
Works[edit]
- (1847) ‘Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China, including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries, with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese.’
- (1851) ‘Report upon the Tea Plantations in the North-west Provinces,’
- (1852) ‘A Journey to the Tea Countries of China’
- (1853) ‘Two Visits to the Tea Countries of China and the British Plantations in the Himalayas’
- (1857) ‘A Residence among the Chinese’ (the culture of the silkworm) (transcription project)
- (1863) ‘Yeddo and Peking’
Works about Fortune[edit]
- "Fortune, Robert," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Fortune, Robert," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
- S. T. Dunn, “The Flora of China” in Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China (1908)
- "Fortune, Robert," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Robert Fortune, A Plant Hunter in the Orient. By Alistair Watt. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: 2017. ISBN 1842466194
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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