His Majesty's Dragon
By: Naomi Novik.
Contributors: Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: Del Ray Mass Market Original
Series: Temeraire #1
Publisher: Del Rey Books; Del Rey
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780345481283
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Great Britain. -- Royal Navy -- Officers -- Fiction.; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction.; Ship captains -- Fiction.; Dragons -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.