Short Reading List

--Raleigh's "Lost Colony"

The following books offer a variety of viewpoints on the subject.

Ashe, Samuel A., "Virginia Dare," in Biographical History of North Carolina. Greensboro, NC: Charles L. Van Noppen Publishers, 1906.

Dial, Adolph L. and David K. Eliades. The Only Land I Know: A History of the Lumbee Indians. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996.

Durant, David. Raleigh's Lost Colony. New York: Athenium, 1981.

Hakluyt, Richard. Collection of the Early Voyages, Travels and Discoveries of the English Nation, Vol. 3. London, 1600.

Hawks, Dr. Francis L.. History of North Carolina Vol. 6, p. 224. Fayetteville, NC: E.J. Hale & Sons, 1857. A description given by John White on arrival at the deserted island.

Lawson, John. The History of Carolina, 1714, rpt. Strother & Mason, 1860.

Lefler, Hugh T., PhD. History of North Carolina, Vol. 1. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc, 1956.

Lorant, Stefan. The New World: First Pictures of America by John White and Jacques Le Moyne with narrations on English settlements 1585-1590. New York: Duell, Sloan, Pierce, 1965.

Mac Millan, Hamilton. Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost colony, Raleigh, NC: Edwards and Broughton Co. , 1888.

Dial, Adolph L. and David K. Eliades. The Only Land I Know: A History of the Lumbee Indians. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996.

Weeks, Stephen B.. Lost Colony of Roanoke: Its Fate and Survival, New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1891.