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Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy #1)
Set aboard a ship in the Indian Ocean in the weeks leading up to the outbreak of the Opium Wars, and featuring an excellent cast of characters, this kicks off a series of novels worth binge-reading. Perfect if you love 19th-century adventure stories, but also if you love true stories like The Wager by David Grann.
The first in an epic trilogy, Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies is "a remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration--and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment" (The Observer [London]).
At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diver...
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