The Monsters of St. Helena. by Hansen, Brooks - 2002.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. First Edition, First Printing 1/4 cloth AS NEW in FINE DJ 8vo (6-1/4 x 9-1/4), 306 pp. Extraordinary novel is UNREAD and AS NEW in FINE/AS NEW DJ. (h) Remainder dot on top of pages, otherwise unmarked. An amazing account of Napoleon's exile to St Helena -- arriving there with a retinue of 1500 people, essentially doubling the island's population -- and at the center, a man regarded as a demon, who, after all, had laid waste to much of Europe and Russia. Magnificently researched by Mr Hansen with the history of the isalnd, the names of residents and retinue, and the brilliant imagination of the man who wrote "The Chess Garden," and "Boone."