In his majesty's service
By: Naomi Novik.
Series: Temeraire
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 818
ISBN-13: 9780345513540; 9780345522054
Subjects: Great Britain. -- Royal Navy -- Officers -- Fiction; Dragons -- Fiction; Ship captains -- Fiction; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction; Istanbul (Turkey) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Capt. Will Laurence is serving with honor in the British Navy when his ship captures a French frigate harboring a most unusual cargo--an incalculably valuable dragon egg. When the egg hatches, Laurence unexpectedly becomes the master of the young dragon Temeraire and finds himself on an extraordinary journey that will shatter his orderly, respectable life and alter the course of his nation's history.
Notes: Originally published in three separate volumes in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2006 as "His Majesty's Dragon", "Throne of jade", and "Black powder war", copyright © 2006 by Naomi Novik.
Table of contents: title: His majesty's dragon --; title: Throne of jade --; title: Black powder war --; title: "In autumn, a white dragon looks over the wide river."