Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost ColonyNovember 1587. A report reaches London that Sir Walter Raleigh’s expedition, which left England months before to land the first English settlers in America, has foundered. On Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, a tragedy is unfolding. Something has gone very wrong, and the colony—115 men, women, and children, among them the first English child born in the New World, Virginia Dare—is in trouble. But there will be no rescue. Before help can reach them, all will vanish with barely a trace. The Lost Colony is America’s oldest unsolved mystery. In this remarkable example of historical detective work, Lee Miller goes back to the original evidence and offers a fresh solution to the enduring legend. She establishes beyond doubt that the tragedy of the Lost Colony did not begin on the shores of Roanoke but within the walls of Westminster, in the inner circle of Queen Elizabeth’s government. As Miller detects, powerful men had reason to want Raleigh’s mission to fail. Furthermore, Miller shows what must have become of the settlers, left to face a hostile world that was itself suffering the upheavals of an alien invasion. Narrating a thrilling tale of court intrigue, spy rings, treachery, sabotage, Native American politics, and colonial power, Miller has finally shed light on a four-hundred-year-old unsolved mystery. |
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... boats, vitally important to John White aboard the flagship. In fact, they are the only hope he has of ever seeing his family again. It has been three years since he left them on Roanoke Island, alone and without supplies. The moment of ...
... boats, vitally important to John White aboard the flagship. In fact, they are the only hope he has of ever seeing his family again. It has been three years since he left them on Roanoke Island, alone and without supplies. The moment of ...
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... boats are readied and we commanded the master gunner to prepare artillery: two minions and a falcon, and to shoot ... boat, the planking bowing under his feet. It all seems so unreal. Sailors crowd the deck above, blocking out the sun ...
... boats are readied and we commanded the master gunner to prepare artillery: two minions and a falcon, and to shoot ... boat, the planking bowing under his feet. It all seems so unreal. Sailors crowd the deck above, blocking out the sun ...
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... boats are beached on the island and the men work their way south on foot through sand and scrub, the way proving much farther than they think. Hopelessly so. A wafting mirage tantalizingly out of reach. Each step an eternity, so that we ...
... boats are beached on the island and the men work their way south on foot through sand and scrub, the way proving much farther than they think. Hopelessly so. A wafting mirage tantalizingly out of reach. Each step an eternity, so that we ...
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... boat reeling, nearly capsizing. The captain wrenches the vessel around before the next wave. A wild ride; but they ... boat makes its approach into the breach. And then a mistake. They have entered it wrongly, leaving the mast standing ...
... boat reeling, nearly capsizing. The captain wrenches the vessel around before the next wave. A wild ride; but they ... boat makes its approach into the breach. And then a mistake. They have entered it wrongly, leaving the mast standing ...
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... boat warps broadside into a swell. Rocked off balance, a very dangerous sea break into their boat and overset them quite. A shocking accident; horrible to witness. Sailors cling to the boat, some hanging on it, but the next sea ...
... boat warps broadside into a swell. Rocked off balance, a very dangerous sea break into their boat and overset them quite. A shocking accident; horrible to witness. Sailors cling to the boat, some hanging on it, but the next sea ...
Contents
A Case of Missing Persons | |
Of London | |
Of Population | |
The Colonists | |
In Certain Danger | |
Grenville and | |
The Fall | |
PART FOUR WHO ARE THE MANDOAG? | |
Raleighs Search | |
Jamestown | |
War on the Powhatan | |
Requiem | |
Deep in the Interior | |
Who Are the Mandoag? | |
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