<p>The Kerguelens - isolated French islands in the southern Indian Ocean - were the home of the Arch of Kerguelen, a 1,000-foot-tall stone vault that had confounded navigators for centuries. Jean-Paul Kauffmann finds poetry in the isolation and strangely serene beauty of this land far from the hustle of "civilized" life, where the vast ocean dominates, where the wind reigns and solitude is interrupted only by animals scrambling in the windswept fields by the graves of those who journeyed there before.</p>

The Arch of Kerguelen: Voyage to the Islands of Desolation

History

JEAN-PAUL KAUFFMANN

Americas

Four Walls, Eight Windows

<p>Like his subject, Napoleon, author Jean-Paul Kauffmann has experienced captivity, as a three-year hostage in Beirut. He brings his insider's knowledge to this moving account of the most famous French soldier's last years in seclusion on a tropical island. After his defeat at Waterloo in 1815, Napoleon was exiled and imprisoned by the British on the island of St. Helena. He became increasingly withdrawn, surviving on a diet of memories that he recounted to the few people around him. But the book -- part history, part travelogue -- portrays the leader as a prisoner also of his mind, poisoned by nostalgia for his triumphs and grief over his defeats. "A haunting, unforgettable book....Kauffmann captures the desolate atmosphere of Napoleon's last home with evocative precision." -- Boston Globe</p>

The Dark Room At Longwood: A Voyage To St. Helena

Biographies & Memoirs

The Harvill Press

L'arche des Kerguelen

LGF/Le Livre de Poche

La Chambre Noire de Longwood: Le Voyage a Sainte-Helene

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

TABLE RONDE

Voyage à Bordeaux

DES EQUATEURS

Outre-Terre (French Edition)

Essays & Correspondence

French and European Publications Inc

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