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The Emperor's Last Island

by Julia Blackburn
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In 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on St. Helena for a surreal exile that would last until his death six years later. • "Dazzling... a compelling meditation on Napoleon's exile...Blackburn has brought her startlingly imaginative sensitivity to bear on a vanished time."—The New York Times Book Review
“A resonant meditation on exile, fame, the stories we tell about ourselves (and) the bigger stories we tell about our great figures.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Series: Vintage Departures Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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  • Release date: October 10, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9780307829221
  • Release date: October 10, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9780307829221
  • File size: 2131 KB
  • Release date: October 10, 2012
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Biography & Autobiography History Military Nonfiction

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In 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on St. Helena for a surreal exile that would last until his death six years later. • "Dazzling... a compelling meditation on Napoleon's exile...Blackburn has brought her startlingly imaginative sensitivity to bear on a vanished time."—The New York Times Book Review
“A resonant meditation on exile, fame, the stories we tell about ourselves (and) the bigger stories we tell about our great figures.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
Expand title description text
Biography & Autobiography History Military Nonfiction