- Ship captains, Officers, Dragons, Fantasy
Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain's defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons.When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Capt. Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future--and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as France's own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparte's boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire.From the Paperback edition.
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- Author
- Naomi Novik
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 356
- Publisher
- Paw Prints 2008-04-18, RH Audio, Del Rey Books
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- heb, Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9781596061484
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