EMPIRE OF IVORY
Book ID/图书代码： 01240007B14268
English Summary/英文概要： Tragedy has struck His Majesty’s Aerial Corps, whose magnificent fleet of fighting dragons and their human captains valiantly defend England’s shores against the encroaching armies of Napoleon Bonaparte. An epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the noble dragon’s ranks-forcing the hopelessly stricken into quarantine. Now only Temeraire and a pack of newly recruited dragons remain uninfected-and stand as the only means of an airborne defense against France’s ever bolder sorties.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 陛下的空中兵團正在上演一幕悲劇，其宏偉的戰龍艦隊和他們人類船長英勇地保抵禦著著拿破崙軍團入侵英國海岸。一場來歷不明的和無法治癒的傳染病，已經重創了宏偉的戰龍艦隊，迫使他們無望地被送至隔離區。現在只有特瑞梅爾和一群新招募的戰龍仍未被病毒感染，他們是最後一隻防禦法國攻勢越來越猛烈的力量。
波拿巴的戰龍在英國海面上不悲壯而戰。只剩下一個希望：特瑞梅爾和他的艦長，威爾·勞倫斯，必須飛向非洲，在那裡可能存在著治癒這場可怕病毒的神秘療方。對於這次探訪沒有什麼時間可以讓他猶豫，而對於那些正處在，命懸一線的戰龍們來說，沒有人能告訴他在那處地平線以外有什麼等待著他們。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：MOVIE OPTIONOctober 31, 2008
Peter Jackson, the Academy Award-winning director of the Lord of the Rings films and the forthcoming The Lovely Bones announced today that his company, Wingnut Films, has reached an agreement to option Empire of Ivory and Victory of Eagles, the two newest novels in Naomi Novik’s best-selling Temeraire series.
“A new writer is soaring on the wings of a dragon.”–The New York Times
“Enthralling reading–it’s like Jane Austen playing Dungeons & Dragons with Eragon’s Christopher Paolini.”–Time, on His Majesty’s Dragon
From Publishers Weekly
In Novik’s earlier fantasies (His Majesty’s Dragon, etc.), readers soared to Europe and Asia on the wings of an intriguing premise: How would the Napoleonic Wars have played out if dragons not only existed, but participated in the war effort? The fourth part of Novik’s engrossing answer sweeps readers off to Africa, where the cure to the disease that has decimated England’s dragon forces may be found. The African adventures of British captain Will Laurence, his dragon Temeraire and their bedraggled band of aerial corps make up the book’s latter half, which showcases Novik’s knack for weaving dragons and dragon lore into a vivid, well-researched historical tapestry. In Africa’s wild interior, dragons shepherd and feed from elephant caravans while protecting the native villagers. This protection includes waging war against England’s slave-seeking colonists, a clash that Laurence and his band may not escape unscathed. Novik fills the conflict’s lead-up with lengthy meditations on dragon civil rights and England’s abolition movement, making for a fitful, pedantic first half. But most will find the richness of Novik’s developing world—and characters—to be worthy compensation for the slow start. (Oct.)
About the Author/作者介绍： 娜奧米·諾維克，1973年出生於美國紐約，就讀於英國布朗大學，獲英國文學學士學位，然後在哥倫比亞大學獲電腦碩士學位。畢業後在加拿大致力於電腦遊戲的開發設計工作。後來回到紐約開始從事小說創作，《龍船長》（三部）系列小說是她的處女作，小說出、版後立即引起巨大轟動，娜奧米·諾維克也因這套小說而一舉成名，她的這部作品被譽為西方經典的魔幻史詩巨著，現在她正著手創作《龍船長》系列的第四部作品。《龍船長》系列小說出版後立即引起西方影視界的廣泛關注，76屆奧斯卡最佳導演獎獲得者，曾經執導《指環王》、《金剛》的著名導演彼得·傑克遜已經投入鉅資全力打造《龍船長》系列電影。An avid student of history with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Brown University and a master’s degree in Computer Science from Columbia University, Naomi Novik began writing Temeraire after completing work as technical lead and designer on the popular computer game Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide for Atari. She currently devotes full time to writing and researching her novels, traveling to Istanbul to inspect the harem quarters of the Topkapi Palace for a daring escape scene in Black Powder War and to the Okavango Delta in Botswana to ensure the realism of a trek through Africa in Empire of Ivory. Novik, 35, lives in New York City.
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