![]() ![]() The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of China. ![]() An unlikely dynasty is born, which will span continents, races and generations. ![]() As their old family ties are washed away they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais or ship-brothers. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. ![]()
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