First published in Great Britain in 1988 by Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd
First published in 2011 by John Murray
(Publishers)
An Hachette UK Company
© Amitav Ghosh 1988
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A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library
Epub ISBN 978-1-84854-423-9
Book ISBN 978-1-84854-417-8
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