Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging

by Tara Roberts

This searing memoir by a National Geographic explorer recounts one woman's epic journey to trace the global slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean--and find her place in the world.

For fans of adventurous women's memoirs like Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love, Cheryl Strayed's Wild, and Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped.

When Tara Roberts first caught sight of a photograph at the Smithsonian's National Museum of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1426223757
• ISBN13: 9781426223754
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: National Geographic Society
• Length: 400 Pages