From the author of }The Glass Palace{ the widely-acclaimed bestseller, this is a rich, exotic saga set in Calcutta and in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal. An eccentric, wealthy Scotsman enters the deadly terrain of the Sundarbans to conduct an ecological survey and trace the journeys of the descendants of the society. Amitav Ghosh is such a fascinating and seductive writer }The Times{ *Also appeared in February Buyer's Notes Fom the author of The Glass Palace, the widely-acclaimed bestseller. The Hungry Tide is a rich, exotic saga set in Calcutta and in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal.
