Roanoke

Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony

By: Lee Miller

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin

November 1587. A report reaches London that Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition, which left England months before to land the first English settlers in America, has foundered. On Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, a tragedy is unfolding. Something has gone very wrong, and the colony - 115 men, women, and children, among them the first English child born in the New World, Virginia Dare - is in trouble. But there will be no rescue. Before help can reach them, all will vanish with barely a trace.

The Lost Colony is America's oldest unsolved mystery. In this remarkable example of historical detective work, Lee Miller goes back to the original evidence and offers a fresh solution to the enduring legend. She establishes beyond doubt that the tragedy of the Lost Colony did not begin on the shores of Roanoke but within the walls of Westminster, in the inner circle of Queen Elizabeth's government. As Miller detects, powerful men had reason to want Raleigh's mission to fail. Furthermore, Miller shows what must have become of the settlers, left to face a hostile world that was itself suffering the upheavals of an alien invasion. Narrating a thrilling tale of court intrigue, spy rings, treachery, sabotage, Native American politics, and colonial power, Miller has finally shed light on a 400-year-old unsolved mystery.

©2000, 2012 Lee Miller (P)2021 Tantor

Narrator ruins it

The narrator used pretty much the exact same speaking inflections with every sentence. Became unlistenable.

Sounded like AI reading

Monotone no pause no emotion flat and without any feeling made the text flat and lifeless like the teasing

Interring work on Roanoke

I really found this book interesting. I appreciated the authors independent lines of thinking and clear explanations of the logic, facts, and assumptions used to consider fates and reasons of the Roanoke colony. I learned much new information - particularly around the greater contexts and powers influencing Roanoke than I have from previous books on the topic.

The only downside was narration. I found the pace, pausing, and voice inflection of the narrator to be very unnatural. This was distracting at times when I found paces frustrated and thinking about the narration rather than story itself. I also found the unnatural pauses choppily broke sentence and thoughts incorrectly that made it slightly more difficult to follow then it should have been

Book is OK, reader is hard to take.

The reader has a strange manner of speaking where her voices rises at end of every single sentence. Can’t imagine the editors would allow her to read this way, It’s just unbearable.

Narration is Important... to reading a... book

The information and approach is interesting and I really wanted to listen to this. I am fascinated by the topic. The narrator's style of reading in 5 to 6 word blocks regardless of how humans talk was so distracting I had to stop listening. Long random pauses in the middle of sentences for no apparent reason. AAAAAAAHHH

I may come back and reread it later or try the paper book.