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Flood of Fire (Ibis Trilogy #3) by Amitav Ghosh
$23.00 AUD
Category: 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
Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down. A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice ...Show more
In An Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"In an Antique Land is a brilliant hybrid, a subversive history in the guise of a traveller's tale." "It tells the story of two Indians in Egypt. The first was a twelfth-century slave; the second is Amitav Ghosh, who stumbled upon the slave in the margins of letters that were written by the slave's mast ...Show more
River of Smoke (Ibis Trilogy #2) by Amitav Ghosh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Ibis Trilogy
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
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 Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
$24.95 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues | Series: Berlin Family Lectures
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literatur ...Show more
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes EverythingThe history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis.Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery of the New World and ...Show more
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