Description
*National Bestseller*
A sweeping account of Americas oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truthsabout race, gender, and immigrationexposed by the story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke.
In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina. Chartered by Queen Elizabeth I, their colony was to establish Englands first foothold in the New World. But when the colonys leader, John White, returned to Roanoke from a resupply mission, his settlers were nowhere to be found. They left behind only a single cluea secret token carved into a tree. Neither White nor any other European laid eyes on the colonists again.
What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke? For four hundred years, that question has consumed historians and amateur sleuths, leading only to dead ends and hoaxes. But after a chance encounter with a British archaeologist, journalist Andrew Lawler discovered that solid answers to the mystery were within reach. He set out to unravel the enigma of the lost settlers, accompanying competing researchers, each hoping to be the first to solve its riddle.
Thrilling and absorbing, The Secret Token offers a new understanding not just of the first English settlement in the New World but of how the mystery and significance of its disappearance continues to define and divide our country.
Author: Andrew Lawler
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 06/04/2019
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781101974605
Language: English
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