Set Fair for Roanoke: Voyages and Colonies, 1584-1606

by David Beers Quinn

Book Overview

Quinn's 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807841234
• ISBN13: 9780807841235
• Release Date: March 1985
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 492 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"