The Hungry Tide (Record no. 1774)
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| fixed length control field | 01736 a2200181 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | OSt |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20191006160009.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9788172236137 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | IIMV |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 823.914 GHO |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Amitav Ghosh |
| Dates associated with a name | Author |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1247 |
| 245 0# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Hungry Tide |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | byAmitav Ghosh |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Harper Collins |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | India |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2016 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xi, 402 pages; |
| Other physical details | Illustrations: |
| Dimensions | 25 cm. |
| 520 3# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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. 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. It is only when the Ganges approaches the Bay of Bengal that it frees itself and separates into thousands of wandering strands. 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.<br/>It is this vast archipelago of islands that provides the setting for Amitav Ghosh s new novel. 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. Dense as the mangrove forests are, from a human point of view it is only a little less barren than a desert. There is a terrible, vengeful beauty here, a place teeming with crocodiles, snakes, sharks and man-eating tigers. This is the only place on earth where man is more often prey than predator. |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total Checkouts | Total Renewals | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Non-fiction | Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam | Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam | General Stacks | 10/06/2019 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 823.914 GHO | 001219 | 09/25/2024 | 07/24/2024 | 399.00 | 10/06/2019 | Book |