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Amitav Ghosh Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Amitav Ghosh is an author and climate change activist. Author most recently of 'The Nutmeg's Curse'...

18 books
Book Cover for: Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories, Amitav Ghosh

Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories

Amitav Ghosh
Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh

It’s absolutely staggering that we don’t acknowledge that opium was absolutely at the heart, at the foundations of modern capitalism...How has all of this come to be forgotten? I mean how does it fall to a novelist but to try and put all that stuff together?

Hardcover, 2024

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book, Mark Bittman

Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book

Mark Bittman
Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh

@bittman Thank you Mark. It was a pleasure and a privilege. Your 'Animal, Vegetable, Junk' has been hugely inspiring.

Paperback, 2022

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything, Barbara Ehrenreich

Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

Barbara Ehrenreich
Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh

Its interesting that amidst all the tributes to the late, great Barbara Ehrenreich there are very few that mention 'Living With A Wild God; A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything', where she describes a mystical epiphany that she experienced at the age of 17. 1/2

Hardcover, Large Print, 2014

$39.00$19.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Marsh Arabs, Wilfred Thesiger

The Marsh Arabs

Wilfred Thesiger
Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh

Anyone who has read Wilfred Thesiger's 'The Marsh Arabs ' will be horrified to know that Iraq's marshes are now dry. https://t.co/rQxlxC2U5v

Paperback, 2007

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Tree Language, Marion McCready

Tree Language

Marion McCready
Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh

"In this gorgeously illustrated collection, Holten uses her Tree Language alphabet to translate and illuminate beloved lost and new original writing in praise of the natural world." https://t.co/IirdORCpoJ

Hardcover, 2014

$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Gun Island, Amitav Ghosh

Gun Island

Amitav Ghosh
Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh

RT @WestlandBooks: We’re happy to share that Amitav Ghosh’s critically acclaimed novel Gun Island is now available in Bengali. Releasing 29…

Paperback, 2020

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh

Sea of Poppies

Amitav Ghosh
Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh

Wonderful to receive a copy of the Arabic translation of 'Sea of Poppies ', translated by Sahar Tawfiq. #translation #translator #bookstagram #arabic https://www.instagram.com/p/CbLTZfgOCIl/?utm_medium=twitter

Paperback, 2009

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming, Andreas Malm

Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming

Andreas Malm
Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh

A privilege to be reviewed by @OlufemiOTaiwo with @KateAronoff and Andreas Malm and his group. Malm's seminal book "Fossil Capital" is referred to at length in #nutmegscurse https://t.co/lDTU068L5h

Paperback, 2016

$32.95$16.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, David Graeber

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber
Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh

The Dawn of Everything', by the late, much-missed David Graeber and @davidwengrow is an absolute marvel of a book! Or rather, it's like an earthquake, erupting under the edifices of a whole range of disciplines built on centuries of received knowledge. 1/3

Paperback, 2023

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life, Kari Marie Norgaard

Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life

Kari Marie Norgaard
Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh

@BrankoMilan please read Kari Marie Norgaard's 'Living In Denial: Climate Change, Emotions and Everyday Life'. It's the most important book yet written about Norwegian responses to climate change. https://t.co/uMLOz2JTXH https://t.co/GIGYTtcTy9

Paperback, 2011

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book