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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... sent a colony of men, women, and children to the Chesapeake Bay with their governor, John White, with instructions to call at Roanoke on the way. For some reason — White's ineptitude as a leader, his preference for Roanoke Island, or ...
... sent a colony of men, women, and children to the Chesapeake Bay with their governor, John White, with instructions to call at Roanoke on the way. For some reason — White's ineptitude as a leader, his preference for Roanoke Island, or ...
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... sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh, are the first English colonists in America. Despite the care taken for their safety, the explicit instructions, the plans for provisions, all will vanish. The only known survivor will be their Governor ...
... sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh, are the first English colonists in America. Despite the care taken for their safety, the explicit instructions, the plans for provisions, all will vanish. The only known survivor will be their Governor ...
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... sent you ... the true discourse of my last voyage into the West Indies, and parts of America called Virginia, taken in hand about the end of February, in the year of our redemption 1590. And what events happened unto us in this our ...
... sent you ... the true discourse of my last voyage into the West Indies, and parts of America called Virginia, taken in hand about the end of February, in the year of our redemption 1590. And what events happened unto us in this our ...
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... sent out to sound over this breach. Lead casts slice through ocean swells, sinking heavily through the water; White waiting anxiously as the readings come back deepening and shallowing for the space of two miles. There is no map of the ...
... sent out to sound over this breach. Lead casts slice through ocean swells, sinking heavily through the water; White waiting anxiously as the readings come back deepening and shallowing for the space of two miles. There is no map of the ...
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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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