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A contemporary story of adventure and romance, identity and history, the hungry tide travels deep into one of the most fascinating regions on earth, where the treacherous forces of nature and human folly threaten to destroy a way of life. The orcaella, or fresh water dolphin, is one of the earth's rarest and least well favoured creatures. The everything creative writing book:

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In amitav ghosh's fourth work of fiction, piya is a young bengali cetologist brought up in the us. Amitav ghosh was born in calcutta in 1956 and raised and educated in bangladesh, sri lanka, iran, egypt, india, and the united kingdom, where he received his ph.d. A contemporary story of adventure and romance, identity and history, the hungry tide travels deep into one of the most fascinating regions on earth, where the treacherous forces of nature and human folly threaten to destroy a way of life. A cousin of the killer whale, it swims on its side and looks like a pig.