- We will send in 10–14 business days.
/images/books/4685749/9780985890827.jpg)
- Author: Lee B Croft
- Publisher: Sphynx Publications
- ISBN-10: 0985890827
- ISBN-13: 9780985890827
- Format: 18.9 x 24.6 x 1.6 cm, softcover
- Language: English
- SAVE -10% with code: EXTRA
Reviews
Description
George Anton Schaeffer leaves Russia in 1813 after being involved in a secret plan of Tsar Alexander I to have a giant shark-shaped, hydrogen filled, balloon made to drop timed-fuse explosives on Napoleon Bonaparte and his invading army in 1812. As part of a Russian-American-Company-chartered circumnavigation of the world he is stranded in Sitka, Alaska, from where Russian-American Manager Alexander Baranov sends him on a mission to the Hawaiian Islands. There he meddles in island politics, becoming the de facto ruler of Kaua'i with its last independent King Kaumuali'i and building forts there in 1816-7 which remain to this day. This book, the THIRD in a trilogy, describes the life of his wife Barbara who waits for him in St. Petersburg for over five years, and his adventures paying the way to Brazil, where he founds a colony called Frankenthal in the Bahia State, of thousands of German mercenaries and emigrant families for Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro I.
EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
The promotion ends in 15d.22:45:22
The discount code is valid when purchasing from 10 €. Discounts do not stack.
- Author: Lee B Croft
- Publisher: Sphynx Publications
- ISBN-10: 0985890827
- ISBN-13: 9780985890827
- Format: 18.9 x 24.6 x 1.6 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
George Anton Schaeffer leaves Russia in 1813 after being involved in a secret plan of Tsar Alexander I to have a giant shark-shaped, hydrogen filled, balloon made to drop timed-fuse explosives on Napoleon Bonaparte and his invading army in 1812. As part of a Russian-American-Company-chartered circumnavigation of the world he is stranded in Sitka, Alaska, from where Russian-American Manager Alexander Baranov sends him on a mission to the Hawaiian Islands. There he meddles in island politics, becoming the de facto ruler of Kaua'i with its last independent King Kaumuali'i and building forts there in 1816-7 which remain to this day. This book, the THIRD in a trilogy, describes the life of his wife Barbara who waits for him in St. Petersburg for over five years, and his adventures paying the way to Brazil, where he founds a colony called Frankenthal in the Bahia State, of thousands of German mercenaries and emigrant families for Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro I.
Reviews