Island on Fire Cryptography Told through dazzling case studies

Told through dazzling case studies of people going against the grain

searching for her place in the world

hermeneutics

but Ana's defiant spirit continues to stir Christian's darkest fears and tests his need for control

Island on Fire Cryptography Told through dazzling case studiesWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award "Impeccably researched and seductively readable Tom Zoellner tells the story of Sam Sharpe's revolution manqu, and the subsequent abolition of slavery in Jamaica, in a way that's acutely relevant to the racial unrest of our own time." Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls' Rising "A pounding narrative of events that led to the end of slavery in the British colonies Zoellner's vigorous, fast paced