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The result is the Sundarbans, an immense stretch of mangrove forest, a half-drowned land where the waters of the Himalayas merge with the incoming tides of the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIt is this vast archipelago of islands that provides the setting for Amitav Ghoshs new novel. In the Sundarbans the tides reach more than 100 miles inland and every day thousands of hectares of forest disappear only to re-emerge hours later. Dense as the mangrove forests are, from a human point of view it is only a little less barren than a desert. There is a terrible, vengeful beauty here, a place teeming with crocodiles, snakes, sharks and man-eating tigers. This is the only place on earth where man is more often prey than predator.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAnd it is into this terrain that an eccentric, wealthy Scotsman named Daniel Hamilton tried to create a utopian society, of all races and religions, and conquer the might of the Sundarbans. In January 2001, a small ship arrives to conduct an ecological survey of this vast but little-known environment, and the scientists on board begin to trace the journeys of the descendants of this society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47264062865702,"sku":"OEEVTQWO","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/e73982f4-f0aa-4fb4-ba6d-a269630fac2d.jpg?v=1701091590"},{"product_id":"sea-of-poppies-signed-lined-dated","title":"Sea of Poppies - Signed, Lined \u0026 Dated","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, the \u003ci\u003eIbis\u003c\/i\u003e. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman. As their old family ties are washed away they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais or ship-brothers. An unlikely dynasty is born, which will span continents, races and generations. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of China. But it is the panorama of characters, whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, which makes \u003ci\u003eSea of Poppies\u003c\/i\u003e so breathtakingly alive - a masterpiece from one of the world's finest novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47264213238054,"sku":"sea-of-poppies-signed-lined-dated","price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/3ad7cbe3-a586-4e2f-ae4d-ca21c9deb692.jpg?v=1701094487"},{"product_id":"smoke-and-ashes","title":"Smoke and Ashes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, 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 enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most surprising at all, however, was the discovery that his own identity and family history was swept up in the story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSmoke and Ashes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is at once a travelogue, memoir and a history, drawing on decades of archival research. In it, Ghosh traces the transformative effect the opium trade had on Britain, India, and China, as well as the world at large. The trade was engineered by the British Empire, which exported Indian opium to sell to China and redress their great trade imbalance, and its revenues were essential to the Empire's financial survival. Yet tracing the profits further, Ghosh finds opium at the origins of some of the world's biggest corporations, of America's most powerful families and prestigious institutions (from the Astors and Coolidges to the Ivy League), and of contemporary globalism itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoving deftly between horticultural histories, the mythologies of capitalism, and the social and cultural repercussions of colonialism, in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSmoke and Ashes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmitav Ghosh reveals the role that one small plant had in making our world, now teetering on the edge of catastrophe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47509516452134,"sku":"978-1529349245","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/213bb1bd-ef64-4cd6-8889-7f8baf4b64ae.jpg?v=1705512819"},{"product_id":"wild-fictions","title":"Wild Fictions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWild Fictions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writing on the subjects that have obsessed him over the last twenty-five years: literature and language; climate change and the environment; human lives, travel, and discoveries. The spaces that we inhabit, and the way in which we occupy them, is a constant thread throughout this striking and expansive collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the significance of the commodification of the clove, the diversity of the mangrove forests in West Bengal and the radical fluidity of multilingualism, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWild Fictions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a powerful refutation of imperial violence, a fascinating exploration of the fictions we weave to absorb history, and a reminder of the importance of empathy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the combination of moral passion, intellectual curiosity and literary elegance that defines his writing, Amitav Ghosh makes us understand the world in new, and urgent, ways. Together, the pieces within \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWild Fictions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e chart a course that allows us to heal our relationships and restore a delicate balance with the volatile landscapes to which we all belong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'We owe a great debt to Ghosh's brilliant mind, avenging pen, and huge soul' NAOMI KLEIN, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThis Changes Everything\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55098605863285,"sku":"9781529349382","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/7471a200-28f6-478b-b5bc-9d10386b1db0.jpg?v=1740067036"}],"url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/collections\/amitav-ghosh.oembed","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}