Sea of poppies /
Amitav Ghosh.
- 1st American ed.
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2008.
- 515 p. : map ; 22 cm.
"Originally published in 2008 by John Murray (Publishers), Great Britain"--T.p. verso.
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.