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To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. This historical novel mystery is set in elizabethan england in the events surrounding the founding of the lost colony of roanoke. Very enlightening book with regard to the early settlement on roanoke island. In the spring of 1585, seven english ships sailed around cape feare and up the windswept coast of florida.
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