Smoke and ashes opium's hidden histories
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 Ocean but also by the precious commodity carried in enor...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2024.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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