Roanoke's Disappearance: The Unsolved Evaporation of an English Settlement: Starvation, Assimilation, and the Haunting Colonial Mystery in North America, 1585-1590

In 1587, over a hundred English men, women, and children established a hopeful settlement on Roanoke Island. Three years later, a supply ship arrived to find the colony completely abandoned. There were no bodies, no signs of a massacre, and no burned buildings. The only clue left behind was a single, cryptic word carved into a wooden post: "CROATOAN."

The Lost Colony of Roanoke remains the most haunting unsolved mystery in American history. Did the desperate colonists starve to death, attemp...