Roots: The Saga of an American Family
by Haley, Alex
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good in good dust jacket. Jacket has minor edge wear and top spine half-inch chip. Light top block soiling.
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, United States
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Synopsis
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. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976.
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- Seller
- Hedgehog's Whimsey Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- Alibris.AS1390010372
- Title
- Roots: The Saga of an American Family
- Author
- Haley, Alex
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in good dust jacket. Jacket has minor edge wear and top spine half-inch chip. Light top block soiling.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City NY.
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- American slavery of Africans|Juffure, The Gambia, West Africa|Kunta Kinte|Historical fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- US History & American Studies;
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