Roots
Haley, Alex2007
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This is the extraordinary account of Alex Haley's own 12 year search for his family's origins. Tracing his ancestry through six generations he discovered a 16 year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past. Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the New World, who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the U.S. National Book Award.
Main title:
Roots / Alex Haley.
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Imprint:
London : Vintage, 1991.
Collation:
viii, 688 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976; London: Hutchinson, 1977.
ISBN:
9780099362814 (pbk)
Dewey class:
929.20896073929.2929.20896FIC929.2089 HALE
Language:
English
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BRN:
400994
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