The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St Helena [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Blackburn, Julia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0749399589 ISBN 13: 9780749399580

Verlag: Vintage, 1992

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After Waterloo, Napoleon gave himself up to the English on the understanding that they would lodge him in a "fairly large" country house just outside London. Instead, he spent the final six years of his life as a prisoner of St Helena, a tiny tropical island in the South Atlantic. More than 2000 British soldiers were stationed there to ensure he could not escape, and the former Emperor and his companions lived in a wind-blown tumbledown house. This is a book about St Helena, an island with a sad, strange history. It follows Napoleon through the eyes of those who lived with him and guarded him, and is also a description of the author's own journey to the island.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

Biografía del autor:

Julia Blackburn has written six books of non-fiction, a family memoir, The Three of Us, which won the 2009 J.R. Ackerley Award, and two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper’s Companions, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives in Suffolk and Italy.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0749399589
• ISBN 13: 9780749399580
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256