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Author Ghosh, Amitav, 1956- author.

Title Sea of poppies / Amitav Ghosh
Edition First American edition
Published New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

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 W'PONDS  898.07 G4276 A6/Se  AVAILABLE
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 MELB  898.07 G4276 A6/Se  AVAILABLE
Description 515 pages : map ; 22 cm
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
Notes "Originally published in 2008 by John Murray (Publishers), Great Britain"--T.p. verso
Subject Social classes -- India -- Fiction.
Social classes -- Fiction.
Schooners -- Fiction.
Voyages and travels -- Fiction
Sailors -- Fiction.
Travelers -- Fiction.
Opium trade -- History -- Fiction.
SUBJECT China -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024178 -- 19th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
India -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064951 -- 19th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
LC no. 2008030854
ISBN 9780374174224 hardcover alkaline paper
0374174229 hardcover alkaline paper