Alex Haley's Queen: The Story of an American Family Condition:Like New As The Book of Strange

As The Book of Strange New Things opens

This is a universe where the first ship to reach the New World travels across the Pacific Ocean from China and colonization spreads from west to east

A reprint of the first edition first published in 1982

Pirenne challenges conventional wisdom by attributing the origins of medieval cities to the revival of trade

Alex Haley's Queen: The Story of an American Family Condition:Like New As The Book of StrangeOpening in Ireland, this book follows the story of Alex Haley's Irish great great grandfather, James Jackson, sent to the United States, where he established the Forks of Cypress plantation in Alabama and raised his family. His son formed a romantic attachment to the beautiful strong willed slave, Easter, and together they had a daughter, Queen, Alex Haley's grandmother. After the Civil War, Queen left the plantation a free woman, tried to find her