Roanoke

In this remarkable work of historical detection, Lee Miller goes back to the original evidence and offers a fresh soluti... (more)

In this remarkable work of historical detection, Lee Miller goes back to the original evidence and offers a fresh solution to the enduring riddle. She establishes beyond doubt that the tragedy of the Lost Colony did not begin on the shores of Roanoke but within the inner circle of Queen Elizabeth's government. Powerful men had reason to want Raleigh's mission to fail, But beyond that, she uses her skills as an anthropologist and ethnohistorian to cast new light on the previously inexplicable puzzles of the Roanoke data. She shows what must have become of the settlers, left to face a hostile world. Narrating a thrilling tale of Court intrigue, spy rings, treachery, sabotage, Native American politics, and power, Lee Miller has finally solved the four-hundred-year-old mystery of the Lost Colony. (less)