Sea of poppies

Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, comes to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ghosh, Amitav, 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©2008.
New York : [2008]
Edition:1st American ed.
Series:Ghosh, Amitav, 1956- Ibis trilogy ; 1.
Physical Description:
515 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Subjects:
Schooners -- Fiction.
Voyages and travels -- Fiction.
Sailors -- Fiction.
Travelers -- Fiction.
Social classes -- India -- Fiction.
Opium trade -- History -- Fiction.
India -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Online Access:Book jacket
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Summary:Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, comes to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.
Item Description:"Originally published in 2008 by John Murray (Publishers), Great Britain"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:
515 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780374174224
0374174229
9780312428594
0312428596

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