In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past audiobook runs 16.2 hours unabridged, narrated by Dominic Hoffman (about 10.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 16.2 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 33 days |
| 1 hour / day | 17 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 11 days |
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What our data says
- At 16.2 hours, it runs longer than 86% of the 5,887 The Americas audiobooks in our catalog.
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Dominic Hoffman narrates 129 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,504 hours in all.
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past is an audiobook by Henry Louis Gates: a 16.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Dominic Hoffman, released January 27, 2009, on the The Americas shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 16.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- Dominic Hoffman
- Released
- January 27, 2009
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- The Americas
- ISBN
- 9781415959541
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past audiobook?
In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past runs 16.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.8 hours.
Is the In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past audiobook free?
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Who narrates In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past?
In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past is narrated by Dominic Hoffman.
Is In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.8 hours, saving 5.4 hours.