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The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St Helena Paperback – 7 November 1997

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'A magically idiosyncratic collage of history, biography and travel writing, permeated with madness and fantasy, absurdity and despair... Bewitching' - The Times

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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Publisher : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET; 1st edition (7 November 1997)
Language : English
Paperback : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 0099752115
ISBN-13 : 978-0099752110
Dimensions : 12.9 x 1.6 x 19.8 cm

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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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'A magically idiosyncratic collage of history, biography and travel writing, permeated with madness and fantasy, absurdity and despair... Bewitching' - The Times

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"clingendael"

Human tragedy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 February 2018

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Fantastic book. Prose like Chatwin’s. Almost makes you feel bad for the dude.

Trevor

interesting take on the Napoleon story.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 October 2014

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Interesting given I live on St Helena. Liked the detail of locations and people on the Island and the story of Napoleon's time on St Helena.

bookworm

Tired old pot boiler

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 December 2007

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Despite a fascinating subject this writer succeeds in producing a remarkably dull book. Whilst the blurb puts much store by the author visiting the island of St Helena to research the last days of the Emperor the result of her stay is about three or four pages of passing comment. The rest of the book is simply a rehash of narrative as available in tourist guides from the island or other books on the matter. Utterly disappointing.

Miss Sherlock

Beware

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 April 2014

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I gave up on this dreadful book about page 4 when she says she had never been to St Helena but also did not know where it is!
Then she gets there - with family - and totally misses finding Napoleon's house!
Simply a record from other books and truly disappointing.
I only continued to read it as I needed something to read - but it was a struggle,

Jill A. Beardsley

From Emperor as one of the greatest military strategist to a starving

Reviewed in the United States on 6 April 2017

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This is the factual account of the last 5 years of Bonapartes life on St Helena. Written and researched perfectly. From Emperor as one of the greatest military strategist to a starving, terribly neglected, lonely man. He died of stomach cancer at the young age of 51 with hardly any one around. Such a waste.

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