![]() ![]() In January 2001, a small ship arrives to conduct an ecological survey of this vast but little-known environment, and the scientists on board begin to trace the journeys of the descendants of this society. ![]() surprises an intruder and subsequently discovers the dead body of a missing reporter who. And it is into this terrain that an eccentric, wealthy Scotsman named Daniel Hamilton tried to create a utopian society, of all races and religions, and conquer the might of the Sundarbans. Checking up on empty family mansions for an old client, V.I. This is the only place on earth where man is more often prey than predator. There is a terrible, vengeful beauty here, a place teeming with crocodiles, snakes, sharks and man-eating tigers. Dense as the mangrove forests are, from a human point of view it is only a little less barren than a desert. ![]() In the Sundarbans the tides reach more than 100 miles inland and every day thousands of hectares of forest disappear only to re-emerge hours later. It is this vast archipelago of islands that provides the setting for Amitav Ghosh's new novel. The result is the Sundarbans, an immense stretch of mangrove forest, a half-drowned land where the waters of the Himalayas merge with the incoming tides of the sea. It is only when the Ganges approaches the Bay of Bengal that it frees itself and separates into thousands of wandering strands. ![]() An Indian myth says that when the river Ganges first descended from the heavens, the force of the cascade was so great that the earth would have been destroyed if it had not been for the god Shiva, who tamed the torrent by catching it in his dreadlocks. The new novel from the author of the widely-acclaimed bestseller The Glass Palace. ![]()
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