| Record Number |
589543 |
| ISBN |
9780374174224 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| 0374174229 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| 9780719568961 (trade pbk.) |
| 9780719568954 (hbk.) 0719568951 (hbk.) 071956896X (trade pbk.) |
| 9780719568978 (pbk.) |
| Author |
Ghosh, Amitav, 1956- |
| Title |
Sea of poppies / Amitav Ghosh. |
| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Publisher/Date |
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. |
| London : John Murray, |
| Pagination etc. |
515 p. : map ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Ibis trilogy 1. |
| Contents note |
"Originally published in 2008 by John Murray (Publishers), Great Britain"--T.p. verso. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Subject |
Schooners -- Fiction. -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Voyages and travels -- Fiction. -- Social classes -- India -- Fiction |
| Sailors -- Fiction |
| Opium trade -- History -- Fiction |
| Travelers -- Fiction |
| Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Historical fiction. |
| Shelf Location |
F GHOS |
