Island on Fire

The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire

Tom Zoellner

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$29.95 • £23.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674984301

Publication Date: 05/12/2020

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376 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

11 illus., 1 map

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Tom Zoellner is the author of Uranium, Train, and The Heartless Stone and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller An Ordinary Man. He teaches at Chapman University and Dartmouth College and is the politics editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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