Fortune's Journey to the Tea Countries of China

Fortune's second trip to China would have trade repercussions that would last for the next century. His writings of this time would be collected into a book called A Journey to the Tea Countries of China, published in 1852. He was able to send well over 20,000 plants and seedlings to the Himalayas, for cultivation by the British. With East India Company able to make its own tea, India became the most important tea-producing nation in the world. This would remain in effect until the middle of the 20th century.