The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke by Andrew Lawler

The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke

Andrew Lawler

426 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history mystery adventurous challenging mysterious slow-paced
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A sweeping account of a four-hundred-year-old mystery, the archeologists racing to unearth the answer, and what the Lost Colony reveals about America--from colonial days to todayIn 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived on Roanoke, an island o...

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Moods

informative 90%
mysterious 40%
reflective 30%
challenging 20%
adventurous 10%
funny 10%
sad 10%

Pace

slow 81%
medium 18%

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