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The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St. Helena
In 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on St. Helenad surreal exile that would last until his death six years later. "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.
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
June 1st 1998
by Vintage
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A virtude dos livros da colecção "Ficção-Verdade", tal como expressa no seu nome, reside no entrelaçar perfeito do verídico, contado como se de ficção se tratasse. Quando penso nestes livros, lembro-me sempre de alguns documentários da BBC. Ao invés do clássico descorrer de factos históricos, entrecortados com entrevistas a especialistas na área e umas quantas imagens de aspecto bafiento, esses documentários são antes uma reconstituição dos factos interpretada por actores convincentes,...more
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Always an excellent writer, Blackburn tackles Napoleon's exile in St. Helena, an odd place that she actually visits to contrast the years of exile to the present. Recommended by Nancy Pearl's More Book Lust, this covers his few years of exile as well as the people who contributed to his life there. Blackburn sticks to his life on the odd island. More background seemed necessary because one wants to know more about Napoleon's earlier life and how he wound up there because he really did nothing...more
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Julia Blackburn is the author of several other works of nonfiction, including Charles Waterton and The Emperor’s Last Island, and of two novels, The Book of Color and The Leper’s Companions, both of which were short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her most recent book, Old Man Goya, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Blackburn lives in England and Italy.
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