The Emperor's Last Island
A journey to St Helena
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
A journey to St Helena
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
"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
– London Review of Books