Searching for Virginia Dare: A Fool's Errand
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (890 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1928556396 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 190 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Did the settlers starve from lack of supplies? Were they killed by Native Americans? Wiped out by a hurricane? Or did some of the colonists survive? These questions drive Hudson's admittedly quixotic quest. Without a central theory to propel the book forward and create suspense, the narrative meanders and loses its way. Within two months, a child was born Virginia Dare the first baby ever born of English parents on American soil. Hudson ultimately argues that the mystery and loss surrounding Virginia Dare represent a quintessential American story: "Loss reminds us that life is a mystery; that death lurks beneath the surface of our cheerful days; that everything can change in an instant." Nevertheless, the book, Hudson's first, breaks no new ground for serious historians, and its unusual blend of history, fiction and memoir presents too many threads to keep a reader passionately on the hunt. Less than two ye
"Going After Virginia Dare" according to C. Ebeling. In 1587, the first boatload of English colonists reached America and set up a community on Roanoake Island, straddling the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds between the North Carolina mainland and the barrier islands known as the Outer Banks. Shortly thereafter, Virginia Dare was born, the first English child in the New World, the granddaughter of the colony's Governor, John White. The colony was in trouble and just after her baptism, White took off for England for help. Unfortunately, he did not succeed in returning until. "Mysterious and moving" according to A Customer. Marjorie Hudson links together three stories like a braid in this moving blend of fiction, memoir, and nonfiction. Virginia Dare's mysterious disappearance taps into our most primal fears of loss of loved ones but even worse, loss of a loved one in a stituation of "not-knowing." Hudson's intriguing narrative structure actually mimics what the human brain does during a disappearance: it tries to find facts and in the absence of facts, begins to speculate until a new story is formed. Brilliant writing. And a fascinating. The ultimate year-round beach read A Customer This book is a real treat. It takes one of the great legends of American history--the Lost Colony--weaves it into the author's memoir-like reflections of her own life and the "missing people" in it, then folds in the author's fictional speculations, beautifully written, about the fate of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the New World, who was one of the colonists who disappeared from Roanoke Island in the 17th century. These fictional passages are beautifully written. The book is hard to categorize, with
From laughter, to grief, to revelation, Searching for Virginia Dare is a unique narrative about the things that haunt us all. Will we ever really know? Following back roads and cold trails, author Marjorie Hudson stands toe to toe with the bones of English settlers and joins generations of historians, archeologists, and obsessed amateurs in seeking an answer to the mystery: What became of Virginia Dare and her family? An unconventional look at history, Searching for Virginia Dare moves from research to reflection, and brings the author face to face with her own life’s journey—the painful loss of a child, and family stories that, as an adult, she is only now beginning to understand. Some say Virginia Dare’s descendants still walk among us. Four centuries of powerful myth surround the infant Virginia Dare. Some say the Lo