Amitav Ghosh

This considerable and distinguished body of writing has appeared sporadically and has been scattered within periodicals and magazines, journals and academic books. It has never been available as a single body of ideas, as the large and singular bedrock upon which Amitav Ghosh's fictional imagination has drawn. Readers of these wonderful essays will discover that, to quote the novelist himself, "despite the difference in form and diction, they share with my fiction certain characteristic subjects and concerns."