The Secret Token
GALLERY: In the year 1587, over 100 English men, women and children land on Roanoke Island in the hope of starting a new European colony. Just a few years later they are gone without a trace. The only clue they left behind is a single word etched into a tree: Coatoan.
Former Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown writing fellow, Andrew Lawler, investigates one of America’s greatest unsolved mysteries in his new book, The Secret Token: Mystery, Obsession and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Lawler shared his findings at a talk on Oct. 4, pulling the audience into a world of all-consuming curiosity and wonder.
Former Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown writing fellow, Andrew Lawler, investigates one of America’s greatest unsolved mysteries in his new book, The Secret Token: Mystery, Obsession and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Lawler shared his findings at a talk on Oct. 4, pulling the audience into a world of all-consuming curiosity and wonder.
10/08/2018
Lawler's new book takes an in-depth look at the sudden and mysterious disappearance of more than 100 people over 400 years ago.
