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The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Rajkumar is a young orphan helping out in a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace in Mandalay, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and court into exile. Haunted by his vision of the Royal Family and one of their attendants, he travels to the obscure town where they have be ...Show more
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Berlin Family Lectures | Reading Level: very good
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literatur ...Show more
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Fom the author of The Glass Palace, the widely-acclaimed bestseller. The Hungry Tide is a rich, exotic saga set in Calcutta and in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal. An Indian myth says that when the river Ganges first descended from the heavens, the force of the cascade was so great ...Show more
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism's violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment.A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh's new b ...Show more
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes EverythingThe history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis.Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery of the New World and ...Show more
Uncanny and Improbable Events (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Amitav Ghosh
$9.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
In this personal and wide-ranging exploration of how our collective imaginations fail to grasp the scale of environmental destruction, he summons writers and novelists to confront the most urgent story of our times.