In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh sent 116 men, women and children to Roanoke Island on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. They were to plant the first English colony in the New World. By 1590, they had disappeared. The colony was lost, and it remains America's oldest unsolved mystery...
A Short Description of Indian Wood In his new novel, Richard Folsom re-opens America's oldest unsolved mystery. It inquires into the mysterious disappearance of 116 men, women and children from Sir Walter Raleigh's 1587 attempt to plant the very first English colony in the New...