We Could Perceive No Sign of Them

Failed Colonies in North America, 1526-1689

By: David MacDonald, Raine Waters

Narrated by: Jack de Golia

The nations of the modern Americas began as successful colonies, but not all colonies succeeded, and the margin between colonies that survived and those that failed was small. Both contribute to our understanding of the ordeals of the Europeans who first settled in the New World and of the Native Americans who had to interact with them, but with the exception of the famous lost Roanoke colony, the failed colonies of North America remain largely unknown except to specialists in colonial history. The Spanish and French repeatedly attempted to colonize parts of Georgia, Florida, and Virginia, while the Dutch, French, and English sought to establish permanent settlements along the northern waterways of the New World. The greatest problem faced by every colony was the specter of starvation. Native Americans gave food to newly arrived colonists, but such generosity could not endure. Indigenous people soon realized that colonists of every nationality were prepared to make war against Native peoples, conquer, subjugate, and even massacre whole communities unless they were cooperative and offered no resistance to the intrusion into their territory. In response, Native Americans withheld aid or resorted to retaliatory violence, dooming many European settlements.

In We Could Perceive No Sign of Them: Failed Colonies in North America, 1526-1689, historians David MacDonald and Raine Waters tell the fascinating stories of the many attempts to establish a European foothold in the New World, from the first Spanish colony in 1526 on the coast of Georgia to the final disastrous French endeavors near the arctic.

The book is published by Westholme Publishing. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

"Easily accessible primer on this facet of the continent’s history." (Joseph Gagné, historian and author of Inconquis)

©2020 David MacDonald, Raine Waters (P)2021 Redwood Audiobooks

We could Percieve no sign

This book tells of the many attempts that were made to colonize the Americas that failed.We always here about Roanoke,but not about the Canadian settlements that dissapeared.It was fascinating! Jack de Golia was a wonderful narrator.I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.'