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The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St Helena Paperback – 7 November 1997
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Julia Blackburn
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Product details
- 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
Moving and original... Julia Blackburn writes like an angel -- Mary Wesley
Pure enchantment, stranger than fiction ― Cosmopolitan
Book Description
'A magically idiosyncratic collage of history, biography and travel writing, permeated with madness and fantasy, absurdity and despair... Bewitching' - The Times
About the Author
Julia Blackburn has written five books of non-fiction - Charles Waterton, Daisy Bates in the Desert, Old Man Goya and With Billie - a family memoir, The Three of Us, which won the 2009 J. R. Ackerley Award, and two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper's Companions, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the author of seventeen short stories specially commisioned by BBC Radio, a selection of which were published in My Animals and Other Family, and four radio plays, including The Spellbound Horses.
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"clingendael"
5.0 out of 5 stars
Human tragedy
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 February 2018Verified Purchase
Fantastic book. Prose like Chatwin’s. Almost makes you feel bad for the dude.
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Trevor
3.0 out of 5 stars
interesting take on the Napoleon story.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 October 2014Verified Purchase
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
1.0 out of 5 stars
Tired old pot boiler
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 December 2007Verified Purchase
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
1.0 out of 5 stars
Beware
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 April 2014Verified Purchase
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,
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
5.0 out of 5 stars
From Emperor as one of the greatest military strategist to a starving
Reviewed in the United States on 6 April 2017Verified Purchase
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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