The Lost Colony

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Published in 1964, this sweeping historical novel stands as the final completed work from a master of mid-century American adventure fiction. The narrative delivers a highly imagin ative, dramatic reconstruction tracking the mysterious fate of the ill-fated Roanoke Island colonists who settled off the coast of North Carolina in 1587 and subsequently vanished from the historical record. The plot follows a daring, fiercely independent young Englishman who finds himself caught between the rigid codes of his homeland and the raw, un-industrialized realities of a virgin wilderness. Moving fluidly from high-stakes naval friction and political schemes in Elizabethan England to survival struggles and cultural integration with native tribes on the American continent, the text uses intense psychological pacing and classic pulp romance to fill in the blanks of a historic mystery. Show more