Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony (Paperback) by Lee Miller

from CCMambretti

I usually read every word in books about the lost colony, but I couldn't get past about the first third of this one. I see there's a new 2006 edition, which I might look into. However, I much prefer [David Strick]'s [Roanoke Island: The Beginning of English America].

from lemuralley

Miller's argument about what happened to the lost colony on Roanoke island is interesting and unusual. But her writing style is horrifying. Fragments aren't sentences. Small children know this. Are taught this. In school. Miller, however, doesn't seem to know this. The entire 260-page book is wri...

from natashaslove

Since I love the subject I really wanted to like this book, but just couldn't. As the author intended to write this as a detective mystery, the book is covered with sentence fragments for effect. That alone keeps the book from flowing. It may seem like a trivial complaint, but when you see that a...

from MarianV

Roanoke, the colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh among others, is usually known as the "lost" colony. How a colony involving several hundred people becomes lost is an interesting story. It has been told before & probably will be again as new technology un-earths clues & evidence. This book, howe...

from goet0095

Overall, I thought the author presented a very well-researched and plausible explanation for what happened to the Roanoke Colony. It seemed like there wasn't much information available about the Colony, so I was surprised she was able to write an entire book about it. A few major complaints that ...