Bibliograph

Left in the wind, the Roanoke journal of Emme Merrimoth, Ed Gray

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Left in the wind, the Roanoke journal of Emme Merrimoth, Ed Gray

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Left in the wind

Oclc number

923794380

Responsibility statement

Ed Gray

Sub title

the Roanoke journal of Emme Merrimoth

Summary

In this fictional journal, Emme Merrimoth?one of the actual colonists of Roanoke?recounts the harrowing journey that brought the colonists to the New World. During the voyage, Emme becomes involved with Governor John White, who reassigns her to his household and then asks her to marry him. With no better prospects and happy to be free of her bland former employers, Emme agrees.Once on Roanoke, the colonist restore the village abandoned by former English settlers and realize, when faced with hostile natives, that they have been misled by White. White plots to return to England to avoid the hardship of the New World, and he and his supporters drive a hard bargain with the colonists: they will send back much-needed supplies from England if they allow White to flee without interference. Faced with little choice, the colonists agree, and are left to fare on their own.Emme, due to a scandalous past, is accused of witchcraft, shunned by the colonists, and enslaved by a nearby tribe. But throughout these dramatic turns of events, Emme commits herself to putting down on paper her every memory of the Lost Colony

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