The Tomb of Hetepka and other Reliefs and Inscriptions from the Sacred Ani (Texts from Excavations)

Very good hard cover, with unclipped dust jacket. Light shelf and handling wear to DJ; light tanning, minor scoring to rear, creasing to edges. Small closed tear on front cover at spine. Pages within are well bound, content is unmarked. CN The Stunningly Vibrant Final Novel In The Bestselling Ibis Trilogy It Is 1839 And China Has Embargoed The Trade Of Opium, Yet Too Much Is At Stake In The Lucrative Business And The British Foreign Secretary Has Ordered The Colonial Government In India To Assemble An Expeditionary Force For An Attack To Reinstate The Trade. Among Those Consigned Is Kesri Singh, A Soldier In The Army Of The East India Company. He Makes His Way Eastward On The Hind, A Transport Ship That Will Carry Him From Bengal To Hong Kong. Along The Way, Many Characters From The Ibis Trilogy Come Aboard, Including Zachary Reid, A Young American Speculator In Opium Futures, And Shireen, The Widow Of An Opium Merchant Whose Mysterious Death In China Has Compelled Her To Seek Out His Lost Son. The Hind Docks In Hong Kong Just As War Breaks Out And Opium Pours Into The Market Like Monsoon Flood. From Bombay To Calcutta, From Naval Engagements To The Decks Of A Hospital Ship, Among Embezzlement, Profiteering, And Espionage, Amitav Ghosh Charts A Breathless Course Through The Culminating Moment Of The British Opium Trade And Vexed Colonial History. With All The Verve Of The First Two Novels In The Trilogy, Flood Of Fire Completes Ghosh's Unprecedented Reenvisioning Of The Nineteenth-century War On Drugs. With Remarkable Historic Vision And A Vibrant Cast Of Characters, Ghosh Brings The Opium Wars To Bear On The Contemporary Moment With The Storytelling That Has Charmed Readers Around The World-- By Geoffrey Thorndike Martin ; With Chapters By Alan B. Lloyd And J.j. Wilkes, And A Contribution By R.v. Nicholls. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: P. Xvi. R_01 R_02 R_03 R_04 R_05 R_07 R_08 R_09 R_10 R_11 R_12 R_13 R_14 R_15 R_16 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 100 101 102 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 Pl_00 PL_01 Pl_02a Pl_02b Pl_03 Pl_04 Pl_05 Pl_06 Pl_07 Pl_08 Pl_09 Pl_10 Pl_12a Pl_12b Pl_13 Pl_14 Pl_15 Pl_16 Pl_17a Pl_17b Pl_18 Pl_19 Pl_20 Pl_21 Pl_22 Pl_23 Pl_24 Pl_25 Pl_26 Pl_27 Pl_28 Pl_29 Pl_30 Pl_31 Pl_32 Pl_33 Pl_34 Pl_35 Pl_36 Pl_37 Pl_38 Pl_39 Pl_40 Pl_41 Pl_42 Pl_43 Pl_44 Pl_45 Pl_46 Pl_47 Pl_48 Pl_49 Pl_50 Pl_51 Pl_52 Pl_53 Pl_54 Pl_55 Pl_56 Pl_57 Pl_58 Pl_59 Pl_60 Pl_61 Pl_62 Pl_63 Pl_64 Pl_65 Pl_66 Pl_67 Pl_68 Pl_69 Pl_70 Pl_71 Pl_72 Pl_73 Pl_74 Pl_75 Pl_76 Pl_77 Pl_78 Pl_79 Pl_80 Pl_81 Pl_82 Pl_83 Pl_84 Pl_85 Pl_86 Frontis. (in color) + xvi + 142 pp. with 5 figs. & 85 plates, Folio.