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A profoundly educational book about one of the darkest chapters in human history: how the British Empire ran the largest drug cartel in world history. This is a story with repercussions that reverberate to this day, which is surprisingly little known – or perhaps unsurprisingly, as the author comments, as colonial powers have been particularly adept in whitewashing their past.
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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Foreign Policy, Literary Hub, and The Millions
Ghosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own family―the climax of a yearslong project.
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about 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 of all, however, was the…
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