In November of 1587, a report reached London claiming Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition to land English settlers in America had foundered. The colony on Roanoke Island off of the coast of North Carolina-115 men, women, and children-had disappeared without a trace. For four hundred years, the question of what became of the doomed settlers has remained unanswered. Where did they go? What really happened? Why were they on Roanoke Island in the first place, as that was not their destination? Using her consummate skills as an anthropologist and ethnohistorian, Lee Miller casts new light on the previously inexplicable puzzle of Roanoke, unraveling a thrilling web of deceit that can be traced back to the inner circle of Queen Elizabeth's government to finally solve the lasting mystery of the Lost Colony.

Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony

History

Miller, Lee

Americas

Penguin??Books

Physical description: xviii,360 p, [8] p of plates ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes index. Summary: In 1587, a report claims that the first English settlers are in trouble. Later it emerges that they all perished on Roanoke Island off the North Carolina coast. Lee Miller alleges that the tragedy began at the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Review: The story of the early settlements in America is one of greed, starvation, massacres and ruin, and the disappearance of the Roanoke colony is one of America's great historical mysteries. Where most works for young readers leave the subject a mystery, Miller tells the tale as a detective story full of spy networks, sabotage, "accidents" and political posturing, and purports to solve the mystery, letting readers in on the thrill of historical investigation. Source notes, however, are mostly for primary sources, and inclusion of an author's note would have been an opportunity to show how the author arrived at her conclusions. Also, for a book so rooted in geography, a good map would have been helpful, as would a bibliography for young readers who wish to read further. Still, the handsome design, the lively prose and the trappings of the mystery tale will make history buffs read this in one big gulp. A good match with Jean Fritz's The Lost Colony of Roanoke (2004) and Michael Cooper's Jamestown, 1607 (Jan. 2007). (historical cast, time line, source notes, index) (Nonfiction. 9+) (Kirkus Reviews). Subjects: Colonists - North Carolina - Roanoke - History - 16th century. English - Elizabeth 1558-1603. American history: c 1500 to c 1800. Illustrated.

Roanoke

RANDOM HOUSE UK

The lost colony of Roanoke is one of America's oldest and most intriguing historical mysteries. The lost colony of Roanoke is America's birthplace and one of America's oldest mysteries. What makes this book unique is that every clue furnished by primary documents is treated as evidence. It answers the three questions essential to solving the mystery: Why were the lost colonists lost? Where did the lost colonists go? Why were the lost colonists never recovered? The answers come from the clues the colonists themselves left and are startling: * The colonists were not lost because of bad luck or a shortage of food, but because they were sabotaged! (cont.)

Mystery Of The Lost Colony (Roanoke)

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Scholastic Nonfiction

Lee Miller Photographer

Interspered with the biography and critique of Lee Miller are the photographs she took during her interest in photography

Arts & Photography

Livingston, Jane

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Thames&Hudson

The remarkable and unconventional Lee Miller was one of the twentieth century's most accomplished photographers. At the age of twenty, she was discovered on a New York street by Conde Nast, who instantly decided to put her face on the cover of Vogue. Two years later she left America for Paris to become a photographer herself. There she became the disciple and lover of Man Ray and an intimate of the Paris art world. World War II saw her as Vogue's war correspondent, present at the liberation of Paris and when the Dachau concentration camp was first entered. Her later years were spent in London and at her home on the Sussex downs, where she kept up the many friendships she had made. Miller came into contact with a wide range of people: painters, sculptors, actors, novelists, poets, journalists, musicians, dancers, and leaders in the field of fashion. She photographed them all, and many became close friends. In Lee Miller: Portraits from a Life, the finest of these photographs are shown together for the first time. They include not only perceptive and sympathetic portraits of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Dora Maar, Fred Astaire, Marlene Dietrich, Igor Stravinsky, Yehudi Menuhin, Dylan Thomas, Colette, and a host of others but also pictures of Londoners in the Blitz, of Parisians celebrating their liberation, and of the aftermath of the Third Reich. An exhibition based on this show will be held at the Getty in 2003. 135 duotone photographs.

Lee Miller: Portraits from a Life

Calvocoressi, Richard

Individual Artists

Lee Miller retrieves the voices of Indian people over five centuries and weaves them into an alternate history of the continent, while introducing us to the grandeur and diversity of the 500 nations who held this land before the first European set foot on it. Here, collected in one volume, is the testimony of more than 250 Indian civilizations—of the Aztec king Moctezuma, the Seminole leader Osceola, Tecumseh, Cochise, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Sarah Winnemucca. Through their eyes, we see the shaping events of the past in a radically different light, one that is tragic yet shows courage in the face of adversity. “Extraordinarily moving. . . . A haunting and eloquent anthology that serves as a testament to the courage and the nobility of Native Americans in the face of physical and spiritual genocide.” —Booklist

From the Heart: Voices of the American Indian

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

An investigation of a 400-year old human drama.Were the Lost Colonists of Sir Walter Raleigh’s 1587 expedition the victims of accident or of sabotage? Lee Miller examines the evidence and tells an astonishing story.

Pimlico

Wine East of the Rockies

Cattell, Hudson

L & H Photojournalism

Kali Sunset

Clover Creek Press

Between Us: Audiences, Affect and the In-Between

This is a book for audiences. It is a book about audiences. It is a book for anyone who watches, is watched, and all the spaces in between.Introducing the idea of performance as a shared transformative experience, this engaging book will help you make sense of the performer/audience interaction in a landscape where boundaries are collapsing. Drawing on themes of performance, exchange and the body, it offers an accessible entry into the philosophy of spectatorship.

Whalley, Joanne 'Bob'

Humor & Entertainment

Red Globe Press

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