522 pages
English language
Published 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
River of smoke
by Amitav Ghosh
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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.
Subjects
- Opium trade
- Cyclones
- Sailors
- Social classes
- Voyages and travels
- Schooners
- Social conditions
- Fiction
- History
Places
- India