My uncle Roy Moxham, who has died aged 86, was a former tea plantation supervisor who in later life turned his hand to writing about tea and about India, a country he visited many times on extended trips.
His most successful book was The Great Hedge of India (2001), which was published not just in English but in multiple Indian languages. The hedge of the title, which was four metres high and 2.5m wide, was made of thorny shrubs and stretched 2,500 miles across British India to form a customs line guarded by 12,000 men on behalf of the East India Company.
