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An edition of Sea of Poppies (2005)

Sea of Poppies

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At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slave ship The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean; its crew a motley array of sailors, stowaways, and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, the ship boasts a diverse cast of Indians, coolies, and Westerners, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed village woman, from a mulatto American to an evangelical opium trader. As their family ties wash away, they come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers, and an unlikely dynasty is born. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the back streets of China. But it is the panorama of sharply drawn characters that brings Sea of Poppies so breathtakingly alive. The first in a trilogy, this is a masterpiece by a world-class novelist.

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John Murray
Language
English
Pages
471

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Subjects

Opium trade, History, Literature, Sailors, Travelers, Fiction, Voyages and travels, Social conditions, Social classes, Schooners, Literary, Fiction, historical, Slaves, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, India, fiction, Slave trade, Social history

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India, China

Times

19th century

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Sea of poppies
2009, Picador
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Sea of poppies
2008, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st American ed.
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Sea of Poppies
2008, John Murray
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London
Genre
Fiction

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Dewey Decimal Class
823.914
Library of Congress
PR9499.3.G536 S43 2008b, PR9499.3.G536

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Pagination
471 p. ;
Number of pages
471

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OL23391142M
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0719568951, 0719568961
ISBN 13
9780719568954
LCCN
2008426454
OCLC/WorldCat
214307438
Library Thing
4631639
Goodreads
3424867

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