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description: Ibis Trilogy Amitav Ghosh Collection 3 Books Bundle includes Titles in this Collection :- Sea of Poppies River of Smoke Flood of Fire [Hardcover]. Description:- Sea of Poppies: Ibis Trilogy Book 1 At the heart of this epic saga set just before the Opium Wars is an old slaving-ship the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways coolies and convicts.In a time of colonial upheaval fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman. River of Smoke: Ibis Trilogy Book 2 In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius is caught up in the whirlwind. When the seas settle five men have disappeared - two lascars two convicts and one of the passengers. Did the same storm upend the fortunes of those aboard the Anahita an opium carrier heading towards Canton? And what fate befell those aboard the Redruth a sturdy two-masted brig heading East out of Cornwall? Flood of Fire: Ibis Trilogy Book 3 The thrilling climax to the Ibis trilogy that began with the phenomenal Booker-shortlisted Sea of Poppies.It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight the colonial government declares war.One of the vessels requisitioned for the attack the Hind travels eastwards from Bengal to China sailing into the midst of the First Opium War.
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title: Ibis Trilogy Amitav Ghosh Collection 3 Books Bundle
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