{"product_id":"the-emperors-last-island-9780099752110","title":"The Emperors Last Island","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Emperor''s Last Stand \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA melancholy and exquisitely bizarre essay on fame, morality and the vanity of human wishes * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eMoving and original... Julia Blackburn writes like an angel -- Mary Wesley\u003cbr\u003ePure enchantment, stranger than fiction * Cosmopolitan *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151072915799,"sku":"9780099752110","price":14.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-emperors-last-island-9780099752110","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}