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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... never intended we should uncover. To learn the truth. To solve a mystery. Some will find it jarring. Raleigh himself did not write his own side of the story, though perhaps he gave us his reasons when he wrote, I know that it will be ...
... never intended we should uncover. To learn the truth. To solve a mystery. Some will find it jarring. Raleigh himself did not write his own side of the story, though perhaps he gave us his reasons when he wrote, I know that it will be ...
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... never been given equal value in any previous treatment of the subject. As a consequence, the mystery has not been solved. The single most important question surrounding the Lost Colonists is: Why were they left on Roanoke Island? From ...
... never been given equal value in any previous treatment of the subject. As a consequence, the mystery has not been solved. The single most important question surrounding the Lost Colonists is: Why were they left on Roanoke Island? From ...
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... , without whom I could never have completed this book; to Julie Widger and Suzanne Searle of the Lamont Memorial Free Library; the staff of the Cornell University Law Library and the Carl A. Kroch Library Division Acknowledgments.
... , without whom I could never have completed this book; to Julie Widger and Suzanne Searle of the Lamont Memorial Free Library; the staff of the Cornell University Law Library and the Carl A. Kroch Library Division Acknowledgments.
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... never been examined as a crime. If it had, it would have been apparent from the beginning that much more was involved than a simple case of missing persons. It is still possible to solve the crime — if only we unravel the clues. John ...
... never been examined as a crime. If it had, it would have been apparent from the beginning that much more was involved than a simple case of missing persons. It is still possible to solve the crime — if only we unravel the clues. John ...
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... never been. A chill sweeps over White, constricting his heart. Everything gone . . . but one thing. In the center of the compound is a high wooden palisade, artificially constructed of trees with curtains and flankers very fort-like ...
... never been. A chill sweeps over White, constricting his heart. Everything gone . . . but one thing. In the center of the compound is a high wooden palisade, artificially constructed of trees with curtains and flankers very fort-like ...
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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