TY - BOOK AU - Novik,Naomi TI - Empire of ivory T2 - Temeraire SN - 9780007258734 U1 - 813.6 22 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - Harper Voyager KW - Great Britain KW - Royal Navy KW - Officers KW - Fiction KW - Dragons KW - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 KW - Fantasy fiction KW - gsafd KW - War stories N1 - First published in the U.S.A. by Random House, 2007 N2 - Tragedy has struck His Majesty's Aerial Corps, as an epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the dragons' ranks. Only Temeraire and a pack of newly recruited dragons remain uninfected and must stand as the only means of airborne defense against France's ever bolder sorties. As Bonaparte's dragons harrow Britain's ships, Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence, take wing to Africa in search of a cure for the deadly contagion ER -