Roots: The Saga of an American Family

(The 30th Anniversary Edition). Still vividly remembering the stories of his grandmother about his family after he grew up, Alex Haley began to search for documentation that might authenticate the narrative. It took ten years and a half a million miles of travel across continents to find it, but finally, in an astonishing feat of genalogical detective work, Haley discovered not only the name of 'the African' - Kunta Kinte - but the precise location of Juffure, the very village in The Gambia, West Africa, from which he was abducted in 1767 at the age of sixteen and taken to Maryland and sold to a Virgina planter... Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 899p.