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Flood of Fire (Ibis Trilogy #3) by Amitav Ghosh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Ibis Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
The stunningly vibrant final novel in the bestselling Ibis Trilogy It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial government in India to assemble an expeditionary force for an attack to ...Show more
Flood of Fire (Ibis Trilogy #3) by Amitav Ghosh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Ibis Trilogy
The thrilling climax to the Ibis trilogy that began with the phenomenal Booker-shortlisted Sea of Poppies. It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight, the colonial government declares ...Show more
Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down. A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice ...Show more
In An Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
"In an Antique Land is a brilliant hybrid, a subversive history in the guise of a traveller's tale." "It tells the story of two Indians in Egypt. The first was a twelfth-century slave; the second is Amitav Ghosh, who stumbled upon the slave in the margins of letters that were written by the slave's mast ...Show more
Jungle Nama - A story of the Sundarban by Amitav Ghosh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'One of the finest writers of his generation' Financial TimesThousands of islands rise from the rivers' rich silts,crowned with forests of mangrove, rising on stilts.This is the Sundarban, where great rivers give birth;to a vast jungle that joins Ocean and Earth.Jungle Nama is a beautifully illustrated ...Show more
River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Ibis Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind. When the seas settle, five men have disappeared - two lascars, two convicts and one of the passengers. Did the ...Show more
River of Smoke (Ibis Trilogy #2) by Amitav Ghosh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Ibis Trilogy | Reading Level: General Adult
In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind. When the seas settle, five men have disappeared - two lascars, two convicts and one of the passengers. Did the ...Show more
Sea of Poppies: Ibis Trilogy Book 1 by Amitav Ghosh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Ibis Trilogy Ser.
The stunningly vibrant final novel in the bestselling Ibis Trilogy It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial government in India to assemble an expeditionary force for an attack to ...Show more
Sea of Poppies - Man Booker Shortlist 2008 by Amitav Ghosh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis". Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse ...Show more
Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels, The Ibis Trilogy, ten years ago, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by the precious commodity carried in e ...Show more
The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
$24.98 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this extraordinary novel, Amitav Ghosh navigates through time and genres to present a unique tale. Beginning at an unspecified time in the future and ranging back to the late nineteenth century, the reader follows the adventures of the enigmatic L. Murugan. An authority on the Nobel Prize-winning sci ...Show more
The Circle of Reason by Amitav Ghosh
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
A saga of flight and pursuit, this novel chronicles the adventures of Alu, a young weaver who is wrongly suspected of being a terrorist. Chased from Bengal to Bombay and on through the Persian Gulf to North Africa by a bird-watching police inspector, Alu encounters along the way a cast of characters as ...Show more