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After Waterloo, Napoleon gave himself up to the English on the understanding that they would lodge him in a "fairly large" country house just outside London. Instead, he spent the final six years of his life as a prisoner of St Helena, a tiny tropical island in the South Atlantic. More than 2000 British soldiers were stationed there to ensure he could not escape, and the former Emperor and his companions lived in a wind-blown tumbledown house. This is a book about St Helena, an island with a sad, strange history. It follows Napoleon through the eyes of those who lived with him and guarded him, and is also a description of the author's own journey to the island.

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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)
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  • PublisherVintage
  • Publication date1992
  • ISBN 10 0749399589
  • ISBN 13 9780749399580
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages256
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