471 pages
English language
Published 2008 by John Murray.
Sea of Poppies
by Amitav Ghosh
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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.
Subjects
- Schooners -- Fiction
- Voyages and travels -- Fiction
- Sailors -- Fiction
- Social classes -- India -- Fiction
- Opium trade -- History -- Fiction
- India -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction