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The world at sea

Amitav Ghosh has been a traveller all his life. now he�s embarking on an epic study of the 19th-century journeys that still reverberate today Interview by John Freeman

FOR a man who has spent a great deal of his life perched atop rattletrap buses and tunnelling down interstates, humping through airport security queues on his way from India to America and back again, Amitav Ghosh is oddly unmoved by the concept of arrival.