River of smoke

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522 pages

English language

Published Nov. 13, 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

ISBN:
978-0-374-17423-1
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OCLC Number:
706020980

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Amid a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, three vessels, and the diverse occupants within, converge on Canton's Fanqui-Town, or Foreign Enclave, which is a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars.

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Subjects

  • Opium trade
  • Cyclones
  • Sailors
  • Social classes
  • Voyages and travels
  • Schooners
  • Social conditions
  • Fiction
  • History

Places

  • India