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Written in the waters : a memoir of history, home, and belonging / Tara Roberts.
"The memoir of one woman's life-changing journey to face up to the reality of the global slave trade and find her place in the world"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781426223754 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 395 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Washington, DC : National Geographic, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2024
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| General Note: | Maps on endpages. |
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| Subject: | Roberts, Tara. African American women journalists > Biography. Community archaeology > United States. Transatlantic slave trade > Research. Underwater archaeology > United States. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. Personal narratives. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 306.362 Rober | 31681010403699 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Recounts the authorâs transformative journey with the underwater archaeology group Diving With a Purpose, exploring shipwrecks of the transatlantic slave trade across various countries while connecting with fellow divers and delving into her own family history, ultimately seeking to understand her identity as a Black woman shaped by the legacy of enslavement. - Baker & Taylor
"The memoir of one woman's life-changing journey to face up to the reality of the global slave trade and find her place in the world"-- - Random House, Inc.
One woman's epic journey to trace the global slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean in this searing memoir for fans of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped.
An adventurous blend of personal and cultural history from a star National Geographic Explorer and "a pioneer and an inspiration."âElizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love
When Tara Roberts first caught sight of a photograph at the Smithsonianâs National Museum of African American History depicting the scuba and underwater archaeology group Diving With a Purpose, it called out to her. Here were Black women and men strapping on masks, fins, and tanks to explore Atlantic Ocean waters along the coastlines of Africa, North America, and Central America, seeking the wrecks of slave ships long lost in time. Inspired, Roberts joined themâand started on a path of discovery more challenging and personal than she could ever have imagined.
In this lush and lyrical memoir, she tells a story of exploration and reckoning that takes her from her home in Washington, D.C., to an exotic array of locales: Thailand and Sri Lanka, Mozambique, South Africa, Senegal, Benin, Costa Rica, and St. Croix. The journey connects her with other divers, scholars, and archaeologists, offering a unique way of understanding the 12.5 million souls carried away from their African homeland to enslavement on other continents. But for Roberts, the journey is also intensely personal. Inspired by the descendants of those who lost their lives during the Middle Passage, she decides to plumb her own family history and life as a Black woman to help make sense of her own identity.
Complex and unflinchingly authentic, this deeply moving narrative heralds an important new voice in literature that will open minds and hearts everywhere.
