Roanoke Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony

Name: Roanoke Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony
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ISBN: 9780142002285

ISBN-10: 0142002283

ISBN-13: 9780142002285

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Lee Miller, Lee G. Miller

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In November of 1587, a report reached London claiming Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition to land English settlers in America had foundered. The colony on Roanoke Island off of the coast of North Carolina-115 men, women, and children-had disappeared without a trace. For four hundred years, the question of what became of the doomed settlers has remained unanswered. Where did they go? What really happened? Why were they on Roanoke Island in the first place, as that was not their destination? Using her consummate skills as an anthropologist and ethnohistorian, Lee Miller casts new light on the previously inexplicable puzzle of Roanoke, unraveling a thrilling web of deceit that can be traced back…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 5/28/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


Maps



A Case of Missing Persons



The Disappearance



A Case of Missing Persons



John White: Governor



Of London



Of Population



Of Religion



The Colonists



In Certain Danger



A Case of Murder



Sabotage



The Second Roanoke Expedition: Grenville and the Secotan (1585)



The Second Roanoke Expedition: Lane's Command (1585-1586)



Chaunis Temoatan and a Murder (1586)



A Case of Conspiracy



The Lost Colonists (1587)



Raleigh's Rise to Power



Political Turmoil



The Players



The Motive



The Game



The Fall



Who are the Mandoag?



Raleigh's Search



Jamestown



War on the Powhatan



Requiem



Deep in the Interior



Who Are the Mandoag?



Epilogue



Wingina and the Secotan



The Meaning of Mandoag and Nottoway


Notes and References


Bibliography


Index