818 pages
English language
Published March 20, 2009 by Del Rey Books.
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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.
Subjects
- Great Britain. -- Royal Navy -- Officers -- Fiction
- Dragons -- Fiction
- Ship captains -- Fiction
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction
- Istanbul (Turkey) -- Fiction