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Author:

Ghosh, Amitav.

Title:

Sea of poppies / Amitav Ghosh.

Edition:

1st American ed.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

515 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Schooners--Fiction.
Voyages and travels--Fiction.
Sailors--Fiction.
Travelers--Fiction.
Social classes--India--Fiction.
Opium trade--History--Fiction.
India--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.
Schooners--Fiction.
Voyages and travels--Fiction.
Sailors--Fiction.
Travelers--Fiction.
Social classes--India--Fiction.
Drug traffic--History.
India--Social conditions--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Summary:

The "Ibis," embarks on a journey from Calcutta with a diverse crew of sailors--which includes a bankrupt raja, a widowed tribeswoman, a Mulatto American freedman, and a French orphan--to the poppy fields in Ganges, to China's nineteenth-century Opium War.

ISBN:

9780374174224 (trade : alk. paper) :
0374174229 (trade : alk. paper) :
0374174229 (trade : alk. paper)
9780374174224 (trade : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2008030854

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