Smoke And Ashes. Opium's Hidden Histories.
London. John Murray. 2024. Reprint. Colour plates, 397pp, notes. Paperback. New. "When 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..... More