His Majesty's Dragon

Paperback, 356 pages

English language

Published 2006 by Del Rey Books, Del Rey.

ISBN:
978-0-345-48128-3
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OCLC Number:
60419442

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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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Subjects

  • Great Britain. -- Royal Navy -- Officers -- Fiction.
  • Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction.
  • Ship captains -- Fiction.
  • Dragons -- Fiction.