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Author:
Ghosh, Amitav.
Title:
River of smoke / Amitav Ghosh.
Edition:
1st Picador ed.
Publisher:
Picador,
Copyright Date:
2012, ©2011
Description:
521 pages ; 21 cm
Subject:
Schooners--Fiction.
Voyages and travels--Fiction.
Sailors--Fiction.
Cyclones--Fiction.
Social classes--India--Fiction.
Opium trade--History--Fiction.
India--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.
Cyclones.
Opium trade.
Sailors.
Schooners.
Social classes.
Social conditions
Voyages and travels.
India.
1800-1899
Fiction.
History.
Historical fiction.
Notes:
Originally published in Great Britain by John Murray (Publishers); originally published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Summary:
2nd book in the Ibis trilogy.
Amid a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, three vessels, and the diverse occupants within, converge on Canton's Fanqui-Town, or Foreign Enclave, which is a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars.
Series:
Ghosh, Amitav, 1956- Ibis trilogy ; #2.
ISBN:
1250013755
9781250013750
OCLC:
(OCoLC)773667495
Locations:
ETPD745 -- Emmetsburg Public Library (Emmetsburg)
OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

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