ROANOKE HUNDRED A Novel. By Inglis Fletcher, The Bobbs-Merrill Co.,
Indianapolis - New York, 1948. 
 
Historical Fiction Novel
(Carolina Chronicles Book #1)
Vintage from the 1940s
 
The Grenvilles forsake their comfortable life at the Elizabethan court to found a colony in the New World.
 
Sir Richard Grenville is the hero of this novel about the first attempted settlement of Roanoke Island (1585-1586), while Governor Ralph Lane is portrayed as a weak leader. Much of the action takes place in England before the expedition sails and after the explorers return. The reader gets a good sense of Elizabethan politics and the excitement that exploration held for well-born adventurers. Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, John White, Richard Hakluyt, and Thomas Hariot all have roles in the novel.
 
Navy blue with gilt spine and cover title, gilt embellished border art treatments and color illustrated endpapers. Secure binding with clean pages and a mild bump to the front top pages (to about 15, start of chapter one). The jacket has an 1-1/2 rear bottom spine edge tear and some other edge tears and creases. About 8-1/2 x 6 with 492 pages.