Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans had made her their weroanza-a word that meant big chief. The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favorite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought back a captive, Manteo, who caused a sensation in Elizabethan London. In 1587, Manteo was returned to his homeland as Lord and Governor, with more than one hundred English men, women, and children. In 1590, a supply ship arrived at the colony to discover that the settlers had vanished.For almost twenty years the fate of Ralegh's colonists was to remain a mystery…
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- ISBN: 978-1-250-77824-6
- EAN: 9781250778246
- Produktnummer: 35634347
- Verlag: Picador
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
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Giles Milton
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