Roanoke : The Abandoned Colony
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0742552632
ISBN-13
9780742552630
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Rowman & Littlefield
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 18th, 2007
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
336 grams
Dimensions
15.00 x 22.60 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Social & cultural historySocial and cultural history
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The story of Roanoke is a tale marked by courage, miscalculation, exhilaration, intrigue, and enduring mystery. Now in its second edition, Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony tells the tragic and heroic story of the lost colony during the years between Columbus's voyages and the landing of the Mayflower. Award-winning historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman brings to life the struggle of the settlers and the complex Native American cultures they encountered; and examines reasons for the colony's failure and what might have become of the first English settlers in the New World.
The definitive account of the ''lost colonists'' of Roanoke. Karen Ordahl Kupperman tells a dramatic story of courage, greed, and misadventure. . . . Anyone curious about the enduring mysteries of Roanoke will enjoy Kupperman''s book.
A skillful and readable account of a fascinating chapter in American history.
Evokes a powerful sense of this dramatic, yet tragic, chapter in the English colonial experience in North America.
A sensitive, stimulating, and exceptionally well-written book.
Roanoke is the best book on the subject . . . skillfully reconstructing the events and invoking the personalities of England''s first American outpost. And more than any previous work on the subject, it reveals how the Indians played crucial roles in the rise and fall of Raleigh''s Lost Colony.
A work of drama and intrigue.
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