A New York Times Book Review Editors\' Choice A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of Year A NPR Best Book of the YearIn Amitav Ghosh\'s Sea of Poppies, the Ibis began its treacherous journey across the Indian Ocean, bound for the cane fields of Mauritius with a cargo of indentured servants.
Meanwhile, the Redruth, a nu.
The storm also threatens the clipper ship Anahita, groaning with the largest consignment of opium ever to leave India for Canton.
Now, in River of Smoke, the former slave ship flounders in the Bay of Bengal, caught in the midst of a deadly cyclone.
A New York Times Book Review Editors\' Choice A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of Year A NPR Best Book of the Year In Amitav Ghosh\'s Sea of Poppies, the Ibis began its treacherous journey across the Indian Ocean, bound for the cane fields of Mauritius with a cargo of indentured servants.
A spectacular adventure, but also a bold indictment of global avarice, River of Smoke is a consuming historical novel with powerful contemporary resonance.
All will converge in Canton\'s Fanqui-town, or Foreign Enclave, a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars.
Meanwhile, the Redruth, a nursery ship, carries horticulturists determined to track down the priceless botanical treasures of China.
The storm also threatens the clipper ship Anahita, groaning with the largest consignment of opium ever to leave India for Canton.
Now, in River of Smoke, the former slave ship flounders in the Bay of Bengal, caught in the midst of a deadly cyclone.
A New York Times Book Review Editors\' Choice A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of Year A NPR Best Book of the Year In Amitav Ghosh\'s Sea of Poppies, the Ibis began its treacherous journey across the Indian Ocean, bound for the cane fields of Mauritius with a cargo of indentured servants.
A spectacular adventure, but also a bold indictment of global avarice, River of Smoke is a consuming historical novel with powerful contemporary resonance.
All will converge in Canton\'s Fanqui-town, or Foreign Enclave, a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars.
Meanwhile, the Redruth, a nursery ship, carries horticulturists determined to track down the priceless botanical treasures of China.
The storm also threatens the clipper ship Anahita, groaning with the largest consignment of opium ever to leave India for Canton.
Now, in River of Smoke, the former slave ship flounders in the Bay of Bengal, caught in the midst of a deadly cyclone.
A New York Times Book Review Editors\' Choice A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of Year A NPR Best Book of the YearIn Amitav Ghosh\'s Sea of Poppies, the Ibis began its treacherous journey across the Indian Ocean, bound for the cane fields of Mauritius with a cargo of indentured servants
