The Monsters of St. HelenaMacmillan, 2003 M12 16 - 320 páginas In 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled to the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic, "the place on earth farthest from any other place." The island is populated by English expatriates, the descendants of Portuguese settlers, and their slaves. Bonaparte's arrival--with a retinue of fifteen hundred people--throws the island population into turmoil and particularly alarms the slaves, who believe the emperor to be a demon. After settling in a teahouse in a patch of briars and fruit trees, Napoleon is befriended by a teenage girl, Betsy Balcombe--the only person who is able to penetrate the imperial facade and understand the proud, wounded man within |
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The Island up to 1502 | 3 |
Lopez c 1530 | 9 |
October 1218 1815 | 15 |
October 1827 | 59 |
October 28November 3 | 113 |
November 417 | 161 |
November 1721 | 227 |
November 21December 10 | 267 |
Epilogue | 301 |
Acknowledgments | 305 |
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