Opium trade. Sailors – Fiction. Historical fiction. Social conditions. Schooners – Fiction. Voyages and travels – Fiction. Travelers – Fiction. Social classes – India – Fiction. Opium trade – History – Fiction.
,India – Social conditions – 19th century – Fiction.
PR9499.3. / G467 2008
Library of Congress Classification / Monograph
3ACKU000533546
Abstract: Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, comes to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.