Amitav Ghosh: FLOOD OF FIRE W3 [2016] paperback Condition:Good Agdal Gardens

Agdal Gardens

Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible

At the age of twenty-three

'Did we go too far

Amitav Ghosh: FLOOD OF FIRE W3 [2016] paperback Condition:Good Agdal GardensThe 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 war. One of the vessels requisitioned for the attack, the Hind, travels eastwards from Bengal to China, sailing into the midst of the First Opium War.