Below are the main resources used in writing this newsletter and other websites that provide more information on tea. If you have any suggestions for links, or any other feedback, please email us at pearlriver@pearlriver.com. Thanks!

Pearl River invites you to explore the many facets of tea in history and modern times with our overview of tea. Browse any of the sections of this newsletter using the table of contents, or follow the links at the bottom of each page.

EasternTea.com -- a tri-lingual website run by tea enthusiasts:
http://www.easterntea.com/index.htm

Serendipitea -- a web store as well as a tea history resource:
http://www.serendipitea.com/default.htm

Necessiteas -- a commercial website on the culture and art of Yixing Teapots and tea in general:
http://necessitea10281.goeserv.com/tea%20information.htm

Nilgiri Tea Society -- an organization dedicated to promoting tea and tea scholarship, especially from the Nilgiri region of India: http://www.teasociety.org/default.asp

TeaMuse -- a monthly newsletter for tea aficionados:
http://www.teamuse.com/index.html

Tea4Health -- a website of the British Tea Council:
http://www.teahealth.co.uk/index.html

Information on the health effects of tea compiled by the Linus Pauling Institute:
http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/phytochemicals/tea/index.html#osteo

"Green Tea and Human Health," by Dr.Itaro Oguni, Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Hamamatsu College: http://www.daisan.co.jp/health.htm

Interactive map of green tea-producing regions in China at the Green Tea Store:
http://www.green-tea-store.com/map/map.html

"Famous Tea Quotes," compiled by the Xianju Rainforest Green Tea website: http://www.worldconsortium.com/quotes.htm

A dictionary definition of tea, complete with word history:
http://www.answers.com/topic/tea-1

An electronic version of "The Story of the Tea Leaf" by Montfort Chamney, on the website of tea enthusiast Kai Birger Nielsen: http://www.246.dk/teachamney.html

"A Nice Cup of Tea," an essay by British author George Orwell, published in 1946:
http://www.booksatoz.com/witsend/tea/orwell.htm

Much of the history section of this newsletter drew from The Book of Tea, Alain Stella, ed. (Flammarion, 1992):
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D2080135333/102-9046382-4481767