In this spine-tingling book from the nonfiction An Unsolved Mystery from History picture book series, journey to colonial America and discover the enduring mystery of the missing Roanoke Colony. In 1587 John White was chosen by Sir Walter Raleigh to lead a new colony at Roanoke off the Atlantic coast. After bringing many men, women, and children to the new land, White went back to England to gather supplies for the long winter. But when he finally returned to the fort almost three years later, he found that all of the colonists had vanished. The only signs of life left were the letters CRO carved into a tree and the word CROATOAN carved into one of the fort’s posts. Did the Spanish army capture the colonists? Did the colonists get in a battle with the native people—or join them? Did they try to follow John White to England and get lost at sea? Become a detective, study the clues, and see if you can help solve this chilling mystery from history!
T. H. Breen , Northwestern University In . IS n telling the tragic and heroic story of Roanoke , the " lost colony , " awardwinning historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman recovers the earliest days of English exploration and settlement in ...
Drawing on extensive knowledge of Native American history, the author of From the Heart: Voices of the American Indian searches for the truth about the four-hundred-year-old disappearance of England's first colony in North America and the ...
Discusses the attempts by English colonists to establish a settlement on Roanoke Island and describes the disappearance of the entire colony.
In The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island, Hatteras native and amateur archaeologist Scott Dawson compiles what scholars know about the Lost Colony along with what scholars have found beneath the soil of Hatteras.
The Lost Roanoke Colony
Through a close examination of the early accounts, previously unknown or unexamined documents, and native Algonquian oral tradition, this book deconstructs the traditional theories.
Once John White stepped onto Roanoke Island in 1590, he discovered the English colony he had helped found 3 years earlier completely abandoned.
The creators of Leonardo's Horse describe the English colony of Roanoke, which was founded in 1585, and discuss the mystery of its disappearance in four parts--Looking, Settling, Lost, and Clues.
The Lost Colony of Roanoke: Its Fate and Survival
Uses primary source documents to provide an in-depth look into the history of the Lost Colony of Roanoke and includes a timeline, glossary, and primary source image list.