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Roots : the saga of an American family / by Alex Haley ; special introduction by Michael Eric Dyson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: SoundSoundPublisher number: Zaiop | Blackstone AudioZPaiop | Blackstone AudioPublisher: [Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., [2014]Copyright date: ℗2007Edition: 30th anniversary edition, unabridgedDescription: 24 audio discs (approximately 30 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • spoken word
Media type:
  • audio
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
ISBN:
  • 9781482962024 (library ed.)
  • 1482962020 (library ed.)
  • 9781482962031
  • 1482962039
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Read by Avery Brooks.Summary: It begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree. When Alex was a boy growing up in Tennessee, his grandmother used to tell him stories about their family, stories that went way back to a man she called "the African" who was taken aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America. As an adult, Alex spent twelve years searching for documentation that might authenticate what his grandmother had told him. In an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered the name of "the African"--Kunta Kinte--as well as the exact location of the village in West Africa from where he was abducted in 1767. Roots is based on the facts of his ancestry, and the six generations of people--slaves and freemen, farmers and lawyers, an architect, a teacher--and one acclaimed author--who descended from Kunta Kinte.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Audiobook Adult Audiobook Main Library Audiobook FICTION HALEY, ALEX Available 33111009112646
Total holds: 0

Title from container.

Released by AudioGO, p2007.

Duration: 30:00:00.

Compact discs.

"Tracks every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking"--Container.

Read by Avery Brooks.

It begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree. When Alex was a boy growing up in Tennessee, his grandmother used to tell him stories about their family, stories that went way back to a man she called "the African" who was taken aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America. As an adult, Alex spent twelve years searching for documentation that might authenticate what his grandmother had told him. In an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered the name of "the African"--Kunta Kinte--as well as the exact location of the village in West Africa from where he was abducted in 1767. Roots is based on the facts of his ancestry, and the six generations of people--slaves and freemen, farmers and lawyers, an architect, a teacher--and one acclaimed author--who descended from Kunta Kinte.

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