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A young Indian woman is torn from her family by the opium trade and cast onto a ship bound for Mauritius, in the first volume of an epic trilogy.
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
A Dutch clerk in early 1800s Japan navigates trade, love, and betrayal on the artificial island of Dejima, where two civilisations meet and misunderstand each other.
The Far Pavilions
An English officer raised as a Hindu returns to India and falls in love across the divide of empire, religion, and the Afghan wars.
The Great Divide
In 1907, as the Panama Canal is being dug, Ada Bunting, sixteen, stows away from Barbados to Panama to earn money for her sister's operation, among the thousands drawn there by the work.
Lord Jim
Jim, a young officer, jumps from the Patna when he believes it is sinking with eight hundred pilgrims aboard, and spends the rest of his life trying to redeem that moment.
The Man Who Would Be King
Stories of British India, among them two ex-soldiers and con men who set out for remote Kafiristan intending to make themselves kings.
Rites of Passage
Near the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Edmund Talbot, a young gentleman sailing to Australia to take up a colonial post, keeps a journal of the voyage for his godfather, and of a timid clergyman who becomes the butt of the ship.
Master and Commander
In Port Mahon in 1800, Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy, newly given his first command, the little brig Sophie, meets Stephen Maturin, a penniless physician and naturalist, at a concert, and the two begin a friendship that carries them into the Napoleonic wars at sea.
The Siege of Krishnapur
In 1857 India, British colonials shelter in a residency under Sepoy siege and conduct, in the wreckage of the Great Exhibition, a comedy of civilizational collapse.
Plain Tales from the Hills
Forty short tales of Anglo-Indian life at Simla and the plains: flirtations, scandals, soldiers, officials and the Indians around them, told in clipped, knowing sketches.
The Inheritance of Loss
In a crumbling house in Kalimpong, at the foot of Kanchenjunga, an embittered retired judge lives with his orphaned granddaughter Sai and his cook, whose son is working illegally in New York kitchens.
The Home and the World
During the Swadeshi movement in Bengal, Bimala, the wife of a liberal landowner, steps out of the women's quarters and falls under the spell of his charismatic friend Sandip, a nationalist leader.
This Earth of Mankind
Minke, a brilliant young Javanese student at a Dutch school in colonial Surabaya in the 1890s, falls for Annelies, daughter of Nyai Ontosoroh, the formidable concubine of a Dutch planter.