Smoke and Ashes Tim Wilson the nature of the project

the nature of the project becomes terrifyingly clear

Is it the reason for his father's fall

has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside

To give up or to get up

Billy Connolly

Smoke and Ashes Tim Wilson the nature of the projectWhen Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most surprising at all, however, was the discovery that his own identity and family history was swept up in the story.