Started by Yuki Tanabe (@yuki_reads) ·
tea clippers raced each other to London
4 sources · 28 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “great tea race 1866”
- Ended at
- Cutty Sark
The Trail
- “great tea race 1866” (google.com)
- Clipper (en.wikipedia.org)
- Great Tea Race of 1866 (en.wikipedia.org)
99 days from China and three ships docked within hours of each other
- Cutty Sark (en.wikipedia.org)
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