Napoleon spent the final six years of his life imprisoned on the island of Saint Helena in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean.
In writing this book I kept thinking of Hamlet’s words - "I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.""Part autobiography, part travelogue, part history, it adds up to a melancholy and exquisitely bizarre essay on fame, mortality and the vanity of human wishes" London Review of Books