Smoke And Ashes
''A bracing new history of the global opium trade . . . Ghosh''s tentacular history embraces opium''s entanglement with furniture, architecture, gardens and its role in modern wars . . . But it''s Ghosh''s big-picture thinking that has made his nonfiction so influential . . . A huge achievement'' The New York Times Book Review
From the nineteenth century the British reaped huge profits by exporti...
''A bracing new history of the global opium trade . . . Ghosh''s tentacular history embraces opium''s entanglement with furniture, architecture, gardens and its role in modern wars . . . But it''s Ghosh''s big-picture thinking that has made his nonfiction so influential . . . A huge achievement'' The New York Times Book Review
From the nineteenth century the British reaped huge profits by exporti...
