His Majesty's Dragon (2006)

Naomi Novik

Year:	2006
Authors:	Naomi Novik
Publishers:	Del Rey Books
Pages:	356
Print type:	BOOK

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. Original.