Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony

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Summary: Surprisingly interesting!
Review: I bought this book because I needed to write a book review for my American History review course. I was expecting to trudge through a hundred and some odd boring pages, but was pleasantly surprised.

It was very well written, and read more like a short novel than a history book. While providing information on the many people involved in the Roanoke adventures, it also reviewed the general socio-economic factors influencing American colonization in general. It really contained a ton of information on American colonization and the European factors behind it, and it presented it in such a way that it told a story, rather than simply jumping from time-period and event to time-period and event! (like many of those so called "textbooks")

The author is a noted authority on the early contacts between Europeans and Native Americans.

Read it, you'll like it.

Rating:
Summary: Surprisingly interesting!
Review: I bought this book because I needed to write a book review for my American History review course. I was expecting to trudge through a hundred and some odd boring pages, but was pleasantly surprised.

It was very well written, and read more like a short novel than a history book. While providing information on the many people involved in the Roanoke adventures, it also reviewed the general socio-economic factors influencing American colonization in general. It really contained a ton of information on American colonization and the European factors behind it, and it presented it in such a way that it told a story, rather than simply jumping from time-period and event to time-period and event! (like many of those so called "textbooks")

The author is a noted authority on the early contacts between Europeans and Native Americans.

Read it, you'll like it.

Rating:
Summary: Quite dull
Review: The prose is dry, and the book didn't provide any insights you couldn't get from just asking someone on the street -- no new material, no interesting conclusions.

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Summary: This is THE book to read on Roanoke
Review: Well written, researched and documented. A fascinating mystery told in a great way.