Contents
Foreword by Professor David Mabberley
Acknowledgements
Maps
Prologue
Introduction. In the footsteps of Robert Fortune
Chapter 1. Awakenings
Chapter 2. Wanderings in China: the first expedition, 1843–5
Chapter 3. Interlude: promotion and praise
Chapter 4. A Journey to the Tea Countries: the second expedition, 1848–51
Chapter 5. A Residence Among the Chinese: the third expedition, 1853–6
Chapter 6. The fourth expedition: collecting for the USA, 1858–9
Chapter 7. Yedo and Peking: the fifth expedition, Japan 1860–1
Chapter 8. Yedo and Peking: the fifth expedition continues to Beijing, 1861
Chapter 9. Robert Fortune and the Indian tea industry
Chapter 10. A quiet retirement?
Chapter 11. Fortune’s legacy
Chapter 12. With Fortune in China
Appendix 1. Instructions given to Robert Fortune by the Horticultural Society, 1843
Appendix 2. Report of the council of the Horticultural Society, May 1846
List of insect species known to be named for Robert Fortune
Appendix 5. Plants sent to India by Robert Fortune
Appendix 6. Plants introduced by Robert Fortune to cultivation in the UK, India and Australia, 1843–1861
Appendix 7. Fortune’s herbarium specimens
Notes and citations
Bibliography
Index