River of smoke / Amitav Ghosh.
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TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011Edition: 1st American edDescription: 522 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780374174231 (hbk.); 0374174237 (hbk.) Subject(s): Schooners -- Fiction | Voyages and travels -- Fiction | Sailors -- Fiction | Cyclones -- Fiction | Social classes -- India -- Fiction | Opium trade -- History -- Fiction | India -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction.DDC classification: 823.914 Summary: 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.
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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.
"Originally published in 2011 by John Murray (Publishers), Great Britain"--T.p. verso.
Sequel to: Sea of poppies.
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