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Roots

Kunta Kinte is captured in Africa and brought to the United States as a slave. His descendants survive slavery, the Civil War and reconstruction to thrive as free Americans.

Roots : the gift

Christmas Eve, 1775. For the celebrants at Parker Plantation, it's a time of joy and giving. For enslaved friends Fiddler and Kunta Kinte, it's a chance to give to other slaves the most precious gift of all: freedom.

A look at the evolution of the Earth, from the beginning of the solar system to the present-day. Presented in six sections, divided into 18 chapters setting out the geological and biological developments of each major geological period. The volume's final section looks at the way...

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