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The Emperor''s Last Stand is a book about St Helena, an island with a sad, strange history, and about the tangle of stories and myths, absurdities and simple facts that have accumulated around Napoleon and his sojourn here. It follows him through the eyes of those who lived with him, who guarded him, who managed only to catch a brief glimpse of him, alive or dead.

It is also a personal account: a description of Julia Blackburn''s own journey to St Helena and at the same time a journey through the private memories and associations evoked by the telling of this poignant and curious story.



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A melancholy and exquisitely bizarre essay on fame, morality and the vanity of human wishes * London Review of Books *
Moving and original... Julia Blackburn writes like an angel -- Mary Wesley
Pure enchantment, stranger than fiction * Cosmopolitan *

The Emperors Last Island

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 9 November 1997
      ISBN-13 9780099752110
      978-0099752110
      ISBN-10 0099752115

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Emperor''s Last Stand is a book about St Helena, an island with a sad, strange history, and about the tangle of stories and myths, absurdities and simple facts that have accumulated around Napoleon and his sojourn here. It follows him through the eyes of those who lived with him, who guarded him, who managed only to catch a brief glimpse of him, alive or dead.

      It is also a personal account: a description of Julia Blackburn''s own journey to St Helena and at the same time a journey through the private memories and associations evoked by the telling of this poignant and curious story.



      Trade Review
      A melancholy and exquisitely bizarre essay on fame, morality and the vanity of human wishes * London Review of Books *
      Moving and original... Julia Blackburn writes like an angel -- Mary Wesley
      Pure enchantment, stranger than fiction * Cosmopolitan *

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