A revelatory portrait of Napoleon to mark the 200th anniversary of his death, written for our own time, not in power politics or epic battles, but through his love of nature and the gardens that gave his revolutionary life its light and shade. Napoleon's gardens range from his childhood olive groves in Corsica, to Josephine's gardens and menageries in Paris, to gardens in Cairo, Rome and on Elba, to the walled garden of Hougoumont at the battle of Waterloo, and ultimately to Napoleon's final garden on St Helena, where Chinese labourers built him a summerhouse where he could sit and scan the Napoleon - Ruth Scurr od authora Ruth Scurr a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Ruth Scurr |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
400 |
Rok vydání |
2021 |
Nakladatelství |
Chatto and Windus |