false 1330324 18 At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean; its purpose, to fight China’s vicious nineteenth-century Opium Wars. As for the crew, they are a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a freespirited French orphan. 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. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, the exotic backstreets of China. But it is the panorama of characters, whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, that makes <i>Sea of Poppies</i> so breathtakingly alive -- a masterpiece from one of the world’s finest novelists. 1319808 book 1 5 2008 Sea of Poppies total:948|5:272|4:383|3:200|2:63|1:30| 948 3648 2570 312 3619371 0374174229 9780374174224 75 31 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256006074m/3619371.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3619371.Sea_of_Poppies_A_Novel 5 3 false Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 05:48:38 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 09:05:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1330324 071956896X 9780719568961 798 256 3.85 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1330324.Sea_of_Poppies 5 2 false Wed Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 05 12:39:07 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 05 12:40:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1330324 071956896X 9780719568961 798 256 3.85 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1330324.Sea_of_Poppies 5 4 false Mon Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 08:30:52 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 07:22:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1330324 071956896X 9780719568961 798 256 3.85 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1330324.Sea_of_Poppies 4 2 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 03:37:56 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 16:30:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1330324 071956896X 9780719568961 798 256 3.85 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1330324.Sea_of_Poppies 2 4 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 07:39:25 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 07:43:23 -0700 2008
A group of random individuals end up on a former slave ship as it makes it way from India to China during the opening years of the Opium Wars, in the first half of the 19th century. It's a...more...]]> 1330324 071956896X 9780719568961 798 256 3.85 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1330324.Sea_of_Poppies 4 3 false Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 11:10:21 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 11:05:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1330324 071956896X 9780719568961 798 256 3.85 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1330324.Sea_of_Poppies 4 6 false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 06:08:38 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 06:17:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1330324 071956896X 9780719568961 798 256 3.85 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1330324.Sea_of_Poppies 4 1 false Tue Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 06:00:20 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 00:55:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1330324 071956896X 9780719568961 798 256 3.85 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1330324.Sea_of_Poppies 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 15:36:48 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 16:12:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5880627 1423373766 9781423373766 25 8 3.85 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5880627.Sea_of_Poppies 4 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 13:17:02 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 13:40:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1330324 071956896X 9780719568961 798 256 3.85 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1330324.Sea_of_Poppies 4 0 false Mon Dec 07 09:01:14 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 07 09:03:17 -0800 2009
C&ping what I said about it on DW.

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It's about the indentured labourers who are sent by the British from India to Mauritius. Before I read it I thought it was going to be one of those depressing epics, you know, which I ...more...]]> 1330324 071956896X 9780719568961 798 256 3.85 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1330324.Sea_of_Poppies 4 0 false Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 03 23:40:48 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 03 23:45:39 -0800 2009
This epic adventure tale took me a while to get into, but once I did I was totally captivated by the characters and the story. Ghosh sets up the coming together of a wide variety of people on a 19th century sailing schooner in the Indian Ocean by introduc...more...]]> 1330324 071956896X 9780719568961 798 256 3.85 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1330324.Sea_of_Poppies 4 0 false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 11:10:25 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 12:28:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1330324 071956896X 9780719568961 798 256 3.85 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1330324.Sea_of_Poppies 1 0 false Fri May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 22:54:13 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 23:14:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1330324 071956896X 9780719568961 798 256 3.85 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1330324.Sea_of_Poppies 4 0 false Tue Apr 07 19:05:03 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 19:14:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1330324 071956896X 9780719568961 798 256 3.85 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1330324.Sea_of_Poppies 5 0 false Thu Jan 08 08:43:32 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 16:53:58 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3619371 0374174229 9780374174224 75 31 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256006074m/3619371.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3619371.Sea_of_Poppies_A_Novel 4 0 false Tue Aug 11 05:19:27 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 11:15:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1330324 071956896X 9780719568961 798 256 3.85 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1330324.Sea_of_Poppies 4 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 04:53:55 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 04:35:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1330324 071956896X 9780719568961 798 256 3.85 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1330324.Sea_of_Poppies 3 0 false Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 15:19:53 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 08:07:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1330324 071956896X 9780719568961 798 256 3.85 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1330324.Sea_of_Poppies 4 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 16 11:19:58 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 17:02:41 -0700 2009 Ibis is a two masted schooner that was used as a slave transport ship to run the coasts of Africa. The slave trade is no longer legal, under British law, in 1838 and this particular ship is unable to outrun the law ... so she must be repurposed. Purchasd by an Englishman with a lucrative busines...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4912413