text Smoke and ashes : opium's hidden histories
- Summary
- When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Oce... Read more
- Contents
- Here be dragons -- Seeds -- 'An actor in its own right' -- Frenemies -- The Opium Department -- Big brother -- Visions -- Family story -- Malwa -- East and West -- Diasporas -- Boston Brahmins -- American stories -- Guangzhou -- The sea-calming to... Read more
- Format
- text
- Description
- 398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
| Library | Location | Status |
|---|---|---|
| KCL | 338.4 GHOSH in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
| Library | Location | Status |
|---|---|---|
| KCL | 338.4 GHOSH in Adult Non-fiction | Available |