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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In August 1590, a governor waded ashore on a Carolina island and found one word carved into a post - and no way to know if it meant safety or slaughter.In 1587, John White led 115 English men, women, and children across the Atlantic to found a permanent colony on the coast of America. Weeks later, he sailed home for supplies, promising to return within the season. War, shipwreck, and a captain more interested in Spanish plunder than a rescue mission kept him away for three years.When White finally made it back to Roanoke Island, the colony was gone. No bodies. No wreckage. Just a single carved word - CROATOAN - and a silence that has never fully been explained.The Fifty Miles is the first narrative history to walk the entire six-year arc of England's doomed first American colony from patent to disappearance - and then follow the four-hundred-year search for what actually happened next: a hidden fort symbol found under a 425-year-old map, a signet ring that turned out to be a forgery of hope rather than history, DNA tests with nowhere to compare their results, and a myth-making machine that turned a missing toddler into a national icon, a ghost story, and a wine label.Drawing on ship logs, court depositions, archaeological reports, and the private letters of the men who lived it, this is Roanoke told as it actually happened - not as the legend America built to replace it.For readers of Erik Larson, David Grann, and Candice Millard: a true story of ambition, negligence, and the limits of what history can ever really recover.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In August 1590, a governor waded ashore on a Carolina island and found one word carved into a post - and no way to know if it meant safety or slaughter.In 1587, John White led 115 English men, women, and children across the Atlantic to found a permanent colony on the coast of America. Weeks later, he sailed home for supplies, promising to return within the season. War, shipwreck, and a captain more interested in Spanish plunder than a rescue mission kept him away for three years.When White finally made it back to Roanoke Island, the colony was gone. No bodies. No wreckage. Just a single carved word - CROATOAN - and a silence that has never fully been explained.The Fifty Miles is the first narrative history to walk the entire six-year arc of England's doomed first American colony from patent to disappearance - and then follow the four-hundred-year search for what actually happened next: a hidden fort symbol found under a 425-year-old map, a signet ring that turned out to be a forgery of hope rather than history, DNA tests with nowhere to compare their results, and a myth-making machine that turned a missing toddler into a national icon, a ghost story, and a wine label.Drawing on ship logs, court depositions, archaeological reports, and the private letters of the men who lived it, this is Roanoke told as it actually happened - not as the legend America built to replace it.For readers of Erik Larson, David Grann, and Candice Millard: a true story of ambition, negligence, and the limits of what history can ever really recover. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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