*National Bestseller* A sweeping account of America\'s oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths--about race, gender, and immigration--exposed by the Lost Colony of Roanoke In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina.
Thrilling and absorbing, The Secret Token offers a new understanding not just of the first English settlement in the New World but of how its disappearance continues to define--and divide--America..
In the course of his journey, Lawler encounters a host of characters obsessed with the colonists and their fate, and he determines why the Lost Colony continues to haunt our national consciousness.
He set out to unravel the enigma of the Lost settlers, accompanying competing researchers, each hoping to be the first to solve its riddle.
But after a chance encounter with a British archaeologist, journalist Andrew Lawler discovered that solid answers to the mystery were within reach.
What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke? For four hundred years, that question has consumed historians and amateur sleuths, leading only to dead ends and hoaxes.
Neither White nor any other European laid eyes on the colonists again.
They left behind only a single clue--a Secret token carved into a tree.
But when the colony\'s leader, John White, returned to Roanoke from a resupply mission, his settlers were nowhere to be found.
Chartered by Queen Elizabeth I, their Colony was to establish England\'s first foothold in the New World. *National Bestseller* A sweeping account of America\'s oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths--about race, gender, and immigration--exposed by the Lost Colony of Roanoke In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina
