About the Book
In 1587
America’s first English child was born in a remote
island wilderness. They named her Virginia Dare. Soon
after her birth, Virginia and more than a hundred men,
women, and children disappeared, leaving a cryptic
message carved on a tree.
What became of that infant girl and her people, now
known as the Lost Colony? In search of an answer,
Marjorie Hudson wanders the back roads of North Carolina
and Virginia in an aging Dodge Caravan with a satchel of
research notes and a head full of memory and imagining.
Amazed by abandoned farmhouses wrapped in kudzu, the
Great Dismal Swamp “dripping with spotted snakes,” the
bones of the Jamestown colony, and the living nation of
the Lumbee, Hudson discovers an epic story more complex
and more deeply moving than she ever imagined.
Read Chapter 1
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