His majesty's dragon
By: Naomi Novik
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780345481283
Subjects: Ship captains; Military life; Human-animal communication; Officers; Battles; Dragons; Great Britain. Royal Navy; Great Britain; Fiction; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
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.
Notes: "A Del Rey mass market original"--T.p. verso.

"Ride along with the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik: His Majesty's dragon; Throne of jade; Black powder war."