author
Edward Money
A 19th-century British soldier, traveler, and writer, he turned firsthand experience in India and the Ottoman world into lively books about war, travel, and tea. His work offers a vivid window into the British Empire at its height.
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The Cultivation and Manufacture of Tea
by Edward Money
The Truth About America
by Edward Money
About the author
Born in Calcutta around 1822, Edward James D'Orley Thrale Money served as an officer in the Bengal Native Infantry before becoming known as a writer. He published nonfiction as well as fiction, and his background in military service gave his work an eyewitness quality that still makes it interesting today.
He is especially remembered for books such as Twelve Months with the Bashi-Bazouks, drawn from his time with Ottoman forces during the Crimean War, and The Cultivation and Manufacture of Tea, a practical study of tea growing in India. Across his writing, he often mixed observation, travel, and commentary in a direct, readable style.
Money died in 1889. While he is not as widely known as some Victorian authors, his books remain useful to readers curious about imperial history, military life, and the development of tea cultivation in the 19th century.