A sweeping account of a four-hundred-year-old mystery, the archeologists racing to unearth the answer, and what the Lost Colony reveals about America--from colonial days to today In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived on Roanoke, an island off the coast of North Carolina. Chartered by Queen Elizabeth I, their colony was to establish a foothold for England in the New A sweeping account of a four-hundred-year-old mystery, the archeologists racing to unearth the answer, and what the Lo...
| Title | : | The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke |
| Author | : | Andrew Lawler |
| Rating | : | |
| Genres | : | History |
| ISBN | : | 0385542011 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 426 pages pages |
The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke Reviews
I have had what I will call a passing interest in the story of "The Lost Colony." Since writing a book report about it in 7th grade, if I happened across a book, sometimes I read it, sometimes I didn't. I'm glad I did not pass over this one. You will be too. The disappearance of the...
Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with a galley of this book. This sweeping narrative history looks at the leadup to the Roanoke Colony and Raleigh's rise in England, to the establishment of the colony, to the search by Gov John White after he returned to England, right up to ...
As much as I enjoyed this book, it needs a home. If you're in the US and you want it, it's yours and I'll pay postage. Just let me know. http://www.nonfictionrealstuff.com/20... I am fascinated by mystery stories, and they don't have to be fictional to capture my interest. T...
I admit to knowing nothing about the subject matter before I read this, but then sometimes that's the best way. THE SECRET TOKEN is a non-fiction documentation of the 'Lost Colony' legend of Roanoke; namely a group of Elizabethan settlers who vanished from Roanoke island in the three-y...
Fabulous! The author takes you on his search in an attempt to untangle the mystery of what happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke. He looks at the history of the Colony, theories of other historians, hoaxes, and experts on related subjects. Excellent and occasionally humorous writing. ...
A historical page turner. Looking back at the complex story of The Lost Colony was riveting. I was only vaguely aware of the story until this book. Well written, well researched and thoroughly reviewed from all angles, I would recommend this account of early American history to any...
This book analyzes one of the great mysteries of American history...the fate of the Roanoke Colony. Originally set up to be the first English colony in America, the 115 settlers who set up shop in the northern part of what became North Carolina, after the last English ship left in 1588...
(3-1/2 stars) I knew nothing about the mysteries surrounding the colony of Roanoke (100 settlers seem to have vanished leaving no trace behind except for a signal indicating they might have sought refuge on Croatoan Island) until I read this book. The first third of the book (The Plant...
I received a digital ARC of this book from Doubleday on NetGalley. I?m grateful to Doubleday for their generosity and am happy to post this honest review. All opinions are my own. Synopsis In 1587, 115 British citizens come to colonize America disappeared from Roanoke Island, lea...
Incredibly well written and researched. I definitely recommend this for anyone who has even a passing interest in Roanoke. ...
I finally finished this book last night. It was terrible. Which obviously needs explanation. As someone who studied early (EARLY) American colonialism as a sort of sub-focus for my history degree, and took a course specifically about Roanoke and Jamestown, I was so excited to s...
Enjoyable, readable, and reliable. Lawler does a review of the facts that anyone who has read about the Lost Colony knows, but then he goes on to examine them in terms of politics and global trade, greed and self-interest of the parties, and other human factors. He examines the researc...
This is the telling of the colonists of Roanoke Island who in 1587 sailed from England to the coast of North Carolina but mystery surrounds this story. All 115 men, women and children were never to be seen or heard from again. A through account divvied up into three section, author And...
Fascinating product of determined journalism. The so-called "Lost Colony" is a romantic legend that enabled white supremacists - as early as the mid-1800s - to deny the likelihood that survivors among the abandoned Roanoke colonists intermingled with Native Americans and later with Afr...
I received a free Kindle copy of The Secret Token by Andrew Lawler courtesy of Net Galley and Doubleday Books, the publisher. It was with the understanding that I would post a review on Net Galley, Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes and Noble and my fiction book review blog. I also posted it...- I received a free Kindle copy of The Secret Token by Andrew Lawler courtesy of Net Galley and Doubleday Books, the publisher. It was with the understanding that I would post a review on Net Galley, Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes and Noble and my fiction book review blog. I also posted it...
If you like true mysteries, conspiracy theories, or adventures, this book will hit your buttons. It's a real page turner, and it's well enough researched and thought out to give some interesting and thought provoking insights into American attitudes concerning racial integration, mixin...
America's oldest mystery is the Roanoke Colony disappearance. For a long time, many have been entranced by what happened to 115 odd English settlers in the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the 1580s. I became obsessed with the disappearance after I saw the outdoor drama when I was a ki...
This was a well written and comprehensive history of the Roanoke colony and the search for it. It provides extensive background information on colonialism and the search. ...
(Note: I received an advanced electronic copy of this book courtesy of NetGalley) Due to my being born and raised a New Englander, my education on the "founding" of America focused quite heavily on Pilgrims and Puritans. The Roanoke Colony was nothing more than the briefest of menti...
The Lost Colony of Roanoke has always fascinated me. It?s amazing how a group of people could just vanish off the face of the earth. Obviously there are theories about what actually happened to them, they were either killed or assimilated with the local Indians (in recent years there...
2/3rds great 1/3rd meh Wonderfully written, featuring impressive research and flashes of wry humor. I never really thought much about the "Lost Colony" but was impressed and entertained for the first 2/3rds of the book. However, the last 1/3rd reads like an overly-long white guilt a...
Andrew Lawler manages to take a subject I had a passing interest in and drag me into the world of mystery and obsession that is the hunt for the Lost Colonists. The book is laid out well, beginning with a thorough primer on colonization and what we know about Roanoke, then going to the...
When I first saw this book, I thought..."Oh. Another Roanoke book." To my surprise and delight, this is anything but 'just another Roanoke book.' The incredible amount of research and detail that went into this book is obvious from the moment you begin reading it. Rather than just ...
Like the author, I grew up vacationing every summer in the Outer Banks and every summer my family attended the outdoor performance of the Lost Colony play. This may be why I was so invested and fascinated by this book. Beginning with the actual history of the settlers, courtiers, a...
In 'The Secret Token', Andrew Lawler takes us on the scenic route--no short cuts, just every dead end in the search for concrete evidence, but oh, what a ride. Four centuries of characters appearing and reappearing, with theories, hunches, and swamps of trinkets left as a trail. But a ...
It is rare that a work of nonfiction has both readable/engaging prose and is thoroughly backed with scholarly research. Lawler's work not only has both, but also is organized in such as way that adds interest and keeps the reader engaged. I respect the fact that Lawler digs deep into m...- A nicely written book of several aspects about the lost colony of Roanoke, this volume meticulously gives the background and circumstances of the settling of the colony and the immediate (well, after 3 years' absence) search for it and what happened to the settlers; also the various ar...
- As a history lover who grew up in North Carolina who has visited the Outer Banks several times, this was a book I could not resist. The story of the Lost Colony is one that I've been interested in for years, and I envy people who are able to devote their resources to the search. This i...
Excellent discussion of the search for the Lost Colony from 1500?s to present with a discussion of how our ideas have changed, concluding with a logical explanation. A short article by the author based on the book was in National Geographic Magazine June 2018. ...
