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Flood of Fire (Ibis Trilogy #3) by Amitav Ghosh
$28.00 NZD
Category: Historical 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
Flood of Fire (Ibis Trilogy #3) by Amitav Ghosh
$38.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh
$38.00 NZD
Category: World 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
River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
$40.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$28.00 NZD
Category: World 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 CD (Ibis Trilogy #1) by Amitav Ghosh
$37.00 NZD
Category: World 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 c ...Show more
Sea of Poppies: Ibis Trilogy Book 1 by Amitav Ghosh
$28.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$39.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$38.00 NZD
Category: World 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 Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
$20.00 NZD
Category: World 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 Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
$26.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$29.99 NZD
Category: Environment
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