Sea of poppies /
Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, comes to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.
| Основен автор: | Ghosh, Amitav. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2008.
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| Издание: | 1st American ed. |
| Предмети: | |
| Онлайн достъп: |
Book jacket |
| Резюме: |
Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, comes to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations. |
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| Описание на библ. документ: |
"Originally published in 2008 by John Murray (Publishers), Great Britain"--T.p. verso. |
| Физически характеристики: |
515 p. : map ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780374174224 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0374174229 (hardcover : alk. paper) |