Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony

by Lee Miller Narrated by Jo Anna Perrin

Overview

November 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.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony by Lee Miller provides clear and convincing explanations for the disappearance of the late 16th-century British settlement on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. In probing Native American land disputes and intrigue, Miller uncovers the reasons for the colonists' disappearance. Miller's prose is commanding as she speculates on what really happened to the colonists after they left Roanoke and on the inevitability of their leaving. An ethnohistorian and anthropologist, Miller authoritatively removes the fog she claims was intentionally wrapped around this mystery. ( June) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Booknews

The story of Roanoke Island's lost colony<-->115 men, women, and children who vanished from an abandoned military fort off the North Carolina coast around 1587<-->has been repeated so many times it's taken on the status of myth: America's longest-unsolved mystery. Miller, a TV documentary researcher trained as an anthropologist, offers a dramatically told solution based on the evidence left behind and shows the reasons<-->largely political<-->the colonists were probably destined to fail even before they left England. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dr. A. David Napier

A remarkable book…deeply compelling, so much so that it is surely destined to claim a permanent place in the American colonial record.

Associated Press Staff

Lee Miller offers enlivening insight and astounding detail as she resurrects a 400-year-old American mystery.

Doctor - A. David Napier

A remarkable book…deeply compelling, so much so that it is surely destined to claim a permanent place in the American colonial record.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172775895
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	09/21/2021
Edition description:	Unabridged

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