# Tea and the Effects of Tea Drinking

An audiobook by William Scott Tebb, read by LibriVox volunteers (1 h 41 min, English).

William Scott Tebb gives a history of tea through 1903. He describes the origin, tea plant, harvesting, distribution, popularity and the makeup of tea. Interestingly it was a drink to boost mood. He was commissioned to find the effects of drinking tea and the characteristics of those effects finding it to be a stimulant and noting there was too much tea drinking at the time.

[Listen](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/20187)
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