Set Fair for Roanoke: Voyages and Colonies, 1584-1606

by David Beers Quinn

Overview

Quinn's study brings together the results of his nearly fifty years of research on the voyages outfitted by Sir Walter Raleigh and the efforts to colonize Roanoke Island. It is a fascinating book, rich in details of the colonists' experiences in the New World. Quinn "solves" the mystery of the Lost Colony with the controversial conclusion that many of the colonists lived with the Powhatans until the first decade of the seventeenth century when they were massacred.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807841235
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	03/08/1985
Edition description:	1
Pages:	492
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

	Note on Editing	xiii
	Preface	xv
Part 1	Voyages and Colonies, 1584-1586	1
Chapter 1.	Ralegh's Involvement in the North American Enterprise	3
Chapter 2.	Preliminaries of the 1584 Voyage	20
Chapter 3.	The Initial Contact	28
Chapter 4.	Planning the First Virginia Voyage	45
Chapter 5.	The 1585 Voyage	55
Chapter 6.	Founding the Colony: The First Steps	67
Chapter 7.	The Settlers, 1585-1586	87
Chapter 8.	Explorations	99
Chapter 9.	The Final Phase	121
Chapter 10.	Rescue and Frustration, 1586	130
Chapter 11.	A Colony Which Died	150
Part 2	Surveys of Man and Beast	155
Chapter 12.	The World of Nature	157
Chapter 13.	The World of Men	182
Chapter 14.	Englishmen and Native Americans	205
Part 3	A Colony Is Formed and Lost	239
Chapter 15.	A Colony Launched	241
Chapter 16.	A Colony Created	273
Chapter 17.	The Years of Frustration, 1587-1589	295
Chapter 18.	A Last Voyage	315
Part 4	A Colony Is Lost: New Explorations Continue	339
Chapter 19.	A Colony Is Lost and Found?	341
Chapter 20.	An Archaeological Resurrection?	379
Chapter 21.	The Past and the Future	413
Appendix.	An Archaeologist's View of Indian Society	425
	Notes	429
	Bibliographical Note	443
	Index	451