Set Fair for Roanoke: Voyages and Colonies 1584-1606

About this book

Quinns study brings together the results of his nearly fifty years of research on the voyages outfitted by Sir Walter Raleigh and the efforts to colonize Roanoke Island. It is a fascinating book rich in details of the colonists experiences in the New World. Quinn solves the mystery of the Lost Colony with the controversial conclusion that many of the colonists lived with the Powhatans until the first decade of the seventeenth century when they were massacred.