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When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, WASHINGTON BLACK - an eleven-year-old field slave - is selected as personal servant to one of them, the eccentric Christopher 'Titch' Wilde, a naturalist, inventor and abolitionist. His pursuit of the perfect aerial machine sees them escape the island together, but when Titch disappears, Washington must make his way alone.

Produktbeschreibung
When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, WASHINGTON BLACK - an eleven-year-old field slave - is selected as personal servant to one of them, the eccentric Christopher 'Titch' Wilde, a naturalist, inventor and abolitionist. His pursuit of the perfect aerial machine sees them escape the island together, but when Titch disappears, Washington must make his way alone.
Autorenporträt
ESI EDUGYAN is author of the novels The Second Life of Samuel Tyne and Half-Blood Blues, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Orange Prize. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.