One of the best examples of how experiences can effect a personality are Sinbad's constant battles with loneliness; and one of the first experiences of his life as Sinbad the sailor was that of terror. "Hovering over these brisk waves, a couple of hundred yards away, was a shining disk we felt a sensation first, all through our bodies then I looked to see if George, who stood nearest to me, was still alive. ... No one. ... The first few years of a lifetime are the most influential of them all, a state of uncensored innocence and being truly naive. ... Innocence is one of the few t...

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" The Hungry Tide is set in the Sundarbans, an archipelago of hundreds of scattered islands, some densely populated while others completely uninhabited, at the mohona of several rivers in the Bay of Bengal. ... For hundreds of years, only the truly dispossessed braved the man-eating tigers, snakes and the crocodiles who rule these fragmented islands. ... This is a liquid landscape where surging cyclones can wipe out thousands of lives with the flick of one giant wave. ... The couple came to Lusibari in the years following independence when Nirmal's radical political became too da...

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