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Flood of Fire (Ibis Trilogy #3) by Amitav Ghosh
$22.99 AUD
Category: International 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
Jungle Nama - A story of the Sundarban by Amitav Ghosh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: near fine
'One of the finest writers of his generation' Financial TimesThousands of islands rise from the rivers' rich silts,crowned with forests of mangrove, rising on stilts.This is the Sundarban, where great rivers give birth;to a vast jungle that joins Ocean and Earth.Jungle Nama is a beautifully illustrated ...Show more
River of Smoke (Ibis Trilogy #2) by Amitav Ghosh
$22.99 AUD
Category: International 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: Ibis Trilogy Book 1 by Amitav Ghosh
$24.99 AUD
Category: International 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
Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
$34.99 AUD
Category: 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 Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
$24.99 AUD
Category: International 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
Uncanny and Improbable Events (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Amitav Ghosh
$9.99 AUD
Category: Environment | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
In this personal and wide-ranging exploration of how our collective imaginations fail to grasp the scale of environmental destruction, he summons writers and novelists to confront the most urgent story of our times.
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