A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780465021154 (0465021158)
Publish date: March 30th 2010
Publisher: Basic Books
Edition language: English
Very interesting and seems well-researched, with copious footnotes and a good timeline. It's very much a history though, so don't pick it up expecting a run-down of the various theories of what happened to the Roanoke colony (what I originally thought when I bought it, only later reading the *histor...
This book is about the lost English colony at Roanoke. James Horn gives the historic background for the establishment of the colony, emphasizing the role Walter Ralegh played in its beginning. It was to be a base for the English to attack Spanish ships as they crossed the Atlantic from South Americ...
9 years ago
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