Napoleon & St Helena: On the Island of Exile (Armchair Traveller) [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Willms, Johannes

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ISBN 10: 1905791542 ISBN 13: 9781905791545

Verlag: Haus Publishing, 2008

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'Willms is a wry, entertaining commentator, properly suspicious of hagiography' (Sara Wheeler The Guardian 2008-08-16)

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Isolated in the vastness of the South Atlantic and fortress-like in appearance, the Island of St Helena was important for centuries only as a victualling station for ships of the British East India Company, on their long voyages to and from India via the Cape of Good Hope. It was on one of these journeys that Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington, took note of the island's remote impregnability. It was Wellington who suggested St Helena as Napoleon Bonaparte's place of imprisonment and exile after his defeat at Waterloo in 1815. Until his death in 1821, the former Emperor spent his final years under constant British guard. His exile transformed a speck on the maritime map into the most famous island in the world.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: Haus Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1905791542
• ISBN 13: 9781905791545
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240