The Map Maker
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (557 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B008MER590 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 302 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The Map Maker is a story with all the elements of an exciting adventure into the past. In 1812, Louis’ squadron enters Russia weeks ahead of La Grande Armée to make maps and gather intelligence. The Map Maker is a historical adventure story which starts in war-torn modern day Israel then takes the reader back almost two hundred years to my great great-grandfather’s childhood in post-revolutionary France. Riding by night and hiding by day the squadron prepares the way for the invasion. The Map Maker tells of how Louis is commissioned in 1811 by the Emperor to form what is in fact the first ever reconnaissance unit, a task previously carried out by civilian spies, traveling peddlers and merchants. Louis is now not only plagued by ghosts of soldiers yet to die but also tormented by his feelings for this woman who was forbidden to him. This gift comes to the attention of Napoleon in 1789, when Louis, the young apprentice navigator, helps sneak the French expeditionary fleet out of the besieged Toulon harbour under the nose of Horatio Nelson and his Men-O-War. In his visions Louis is warned repeatedly of impending disasters which are about to befall La Grande Armée, so in a desperate race against time he leads his unit back to Napoleon’s forward headquarters in or
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