The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St. Helena

The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St. Helena

by Julia Blackburn
The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St. Helena

The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St. Helena

by Julia Blackburn

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Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307829221
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/10/2012
Series: Vintage Departures
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Julia Blackburn is the author of several books of nonfiction, including Old Man Goya, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and With Billie, which won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award; and of the novels The Book of Color and The Leper’s Companions, both of which were short-listed for the Orange Prize. She lives in England.
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