bMAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST - ONE OF THE iNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWi'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - A gripping historical narrative exploring both the bounds of slavery and what it means to be truly free. --iVanity FairibrbbrEleven-year-old George Washington Black--or Wash--a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master's brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning, and where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human. p But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, they must abandon everything and flee together. Over the course of their travels, what brings Wash and Christopher together will tear them apa