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- Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2003)
- ASIN: B000WL1XT4
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After reading his first book, The Chess Garden, I've kept my eyes open for books by Brooks Hansen. I loved Perlmans Ordeal, but I think Monsters of St. Helena is his best book yet. This story has a magic that pulls you right in to this strange island world of Napoleon in his first weeks on St. Helena. His relationship with a young teen, Betsy, and his relationship to the island itself, make for a rich read. The island ghosts and natives, slaves, settlers and interlopers - all play a role in this book to give it a deep, textured look into what were the last happy days for this historic figure. The beauty of the words is matched by the complexity of the characters. -- Simple things - Like:"all the leaves, the stalks, and blades are heavy with dew, waiting for the sun to come and warm them dry and open them. The same as every day, yet there is something different, something raw and tender, like the throat of a child who has been weeping and can't remember why." You can't miss the art of this writer -- I can't write as well as Mr. Hansen, few folks can, but if I could, I would write about how much I loved this book and how strongly I recommend it! I'm looking forward to his next book -- and many more to come.
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Sixty million years ago the plates beneath what we now think fo as the South Atlantic Ocean buckled slightly, sending up a range of fiery, spewing volcanoes, while at the same time giving way to an even more cataclysmic flood, so deep and wide that it eventually swallowed the furious mountains entirely. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Las Cases, Dom Fernao, Madame Bertrand, Grand Marshal, Madame de Montholon, Admiral Cockburn, General Gourgaud, Miss Mason, Fernao Lopez, General Bonaparte, Lieutenant Wood, Napoleon Bonaparte, Reverend Boys, Monsieur Marchand, Pourteous's Inn, Side Path, Country Church, Reverend Eakins, Captain Dunbar, Deadwood Plain, Francis Plain, Mademoiselle Betsee, Miss Lotte, Sandy Bay, Governor Wilkes New!
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Sixty million years ago the plates beneath what we now think fo as the South Atlantic Ocean buckled slightly, sending up a range of fiery, spewing volcanoes, while at the same time giving way to an even more cataclysmic flood, so deep and wide that it eventually swallowed the furious mountains entirely. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
goat paths, inland road Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Las Cases, Dom Fernao, Madame Bertrand, Grand Marshal, Madame de Montholon, Admiral Cockburn, General Gourgaud, Miss Mason, Fernao Lopez, General Bonaparte, Lieutenant Wood, Napoleon Bonaparte, Reverend Boys, Monsieur Marchand, Pourteous's Inn, Side Path, Country Church, Reverend Eakins, Captain Dunbar, Deadwood Plain, Francis Plain, Mademoiselle Betsee, Miss Lotte, Sandy Bay, Governor Wilkes New!
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- Memoirs of Napoleon V1 by An Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne in Back Matter
- Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, V1 & V2 by Fauvelet de Bourrienne in Back Matter
- Napoleon Bonaparte (Spanish) (Spanish Edition) by Vincent Cronin in Back Matter
- Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume I by Bourrienne in Back Matter
- Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte (v. III) by Constant Bourrienne in Back Matter
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