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Cyclones Fiction India Social conditions 19th century Fiction India Social life and customs 20th century Fiction Opium trade History Fiction Sailors Fiction Schooners Fiction Social classes India Fiction Travelers Fiction Voyages and travels Fiction Western Ghats (India) Social life and customs 20th century FictionMassey, Sujata
Summary: "India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic accident. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur's two maharanis, the dowager queen...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASGhosh, Amitav.
Summary: Amid a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, three vessels, and the diverse occupants within, converge on Canton's Fanqui-Town, or Foreign Enclave, which is a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GHOGhosh, Amitav
Summary: On a journey across the Indian Ocean, the passengers of the enormous ship, The Ibis, bond together like family. Intent on fighting China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, this hodgepodge group of passengers travel together from the high seas to the poppy fields of the Ganges, and into the backstreets of exotic Canton.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brillance Audio 2008