Amitav Ghosh : Sea of Poppies - signed, lined & dated UK 1st HB edn
UK 1st/1st hardback - these scarce 1st edition copies have been signed, lined with a quote from the book and dated by the author to the title page. Also signed and dated to the back jacket flap by Steve Johnston, cover artist and end-paper designer.
Synopsis : At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman. As their old family ties are washed away they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais or ship-brothers. An unlikely dynasty is born, which will span continents, races and generations. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of China. But it is the panorama of characters, whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, which makes Sea of Poppies so breathtakingly alive -- a masterpiece from one of the world's finest novelists.
Published 01/05/2008
Publisher : John Murray Publishers Ltd
Binding: Hardback
Book Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Signed: Signed, lined and dated by Author
Edition: First Edition, First Impression
ISBN : 9780719568954
Synopsis : At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman. As their old family ties are washed away they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais or ship-brothers. An unlikely dynasty is born, which will span continents, races and generations. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of China. But it is the panorama of characters, whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, which makes Sea of Poppies so breathtakingly alive -- a masterpiece from one of the world's finest novelists.
Published 01/05/2008
Publisher : John Murray Publishers Ltd
Binding: Hardback
Book Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Signed: Signed, lined and dated by Author
Edition: First Edition, First Impression
ISBN : 9780719568954
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