His Majesty's Dragon
by Naomi Novik
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When the HMS Reliant captures a French ship and its priceless cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, Captain Will Laurence is swept into an unexpected kinship with an extraordinary creature and joins the elite Aerial Corps as a master of the dragon Temaraire, in which role he must match wits with the powerful dragon-borne forces of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Ship captains, Officers, Dragons, Fantasy, Great Britain. Royal Navy, Great Britain, Fiction, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Armed Forces, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, fantasy, historical, Napoleonic wars, 1800-1815, fiction, Fiction, alternative history, Fiction, war & military, Military life, Human-animal communication, Battles, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12Showing 4 featured editions. View all 14 editions?
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His Majesty's Dragon
2006, Del Rey Books, Del Rey
in English
- Del Ray Mass Market Original
0345481283 9780345481283
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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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