Sea of Poppies
By: Amitav Ghosh.
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9780719568954
Subjects: Schooners -- Fiction; Voyages and travels -- Fiction; Sailors -- Fiction; Social classes -- India -- Fiction; Opium trade -- History -- Fiction; India -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: 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.