Set Fair for Roanoke: Voyages and Colonies, 1584-1606David Beers Quinn brings together in "Set Fair for Roanoke" the results of his nearly forty years of research on the subject. His is a concise, scholarly history of the voyages sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh and the efforts to colonize what is now North Carolina and southern Virginia. Quinn provides a fascinating, richly detailed account of the early colonists' experiences in the New World, especially during the year 1585-86. Quinn's solution to the mystery of the Lost Colony will no doubt cause controversy. He concludes that while some of the colonists went with friendly Indians to live further down the Outer Banks of North Carolina, most made their way to an area near the Elizabeth River in southeastern Virginia. There they lived with a friendly tribe until well into the first decade of the seventeenth century. They were massacred by Powhatan about 1607. But while he solves that mystery, Quinn acknowledges that large gaps in our knowledge of the colony persist. -- From publisher's description. |
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the North American Enterprise | 3 |
Preliminaries of the 1584 Voyage | 20 |
Planning the First Virginia Voyage | 45 |
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