The sale of customised goods or perishable goods, sealed audio or video recordings, or software, which has been opened. If you are considering cancelling or wish to cancel a product you have ordered from us, please be aware of the following terms that apply:Īpplicability of cancellation rights: Legal rights of cancellation under the Distance Selling Regulations available for UK or EU consumers do not apply to certain products and services. If you are a non-EU customer, please see our returns policy. For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice center (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK). Refunds for orders cancelled under the provisions of the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations will be processed in accordance with your legal rights. If you are a UK/EU consumer, you have the legal right, under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 to cancel your order within twenty eight (28) working days following your receipt of the goods or the date on which we begin provision of the services. One of the vessels requisitioned for the attack the Hind travels eastwards from Bengal to China sailing into the midst of the First Opium War. With no resolution in sight the colonial government declares war. It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. The thrilling climax to the Ibis trilogy that began with the phenomenal Booker-shortlisted Sea of Poppies.

Did the same storm upend the fortunes of those aboard the Anahita an opium carrier heading towards Canton? And what fate befell those aboard the Redruth a sturdy two-masted brig heading East out of Cornwall?

When the seas settle five men have disappeared - two lascars two convicts and one of the passengers.

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.Īs hypnotic as an opium dream and pretty unputdownable' Daily Mail In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius is caught up in the whirlwind. 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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