Blue Bicycle Books, Charleston, SC

Author Luncheon with Andrew Lawler, The Secret Token, Fri., July 20, 12 pm

Join us Fri., July 20, 12 pm for lunch at Halls Signature Events (5 Faber St.), as Andrew Lawler discusses and signs his new book The Secret Token (Doubleday, hb., 448 pp., $30).

Tickets are $32 for the three-course luncheon, or $65 to add a signed copy of the book.

Get tickets here.

For four hundred years, the Lost Colony of Roanoke has consumed historians and amateur sleuths, leading only to dead ends and hoaxes. But after a chance encounter with a British archaeologist, Andrew Lawler discovered that solid answers to the mystery were within reach. He set out to unravel the enigma of the lost settlers, accompanying competing researchers, each hoping to be the first to solve its riddle. In the course of his journey, Lawler encounters a host of characters obsessed with the colonists and their fate, and he determines why the Lost Colony continues to haunt our national consciousness.

Thrilling and absorbing, The Secret Token offers a new understanding not just of the first English settlement in the New World but of how its disappearance continues to define–and divide–America.

Andrew Lawler is a contributing writer for Science, a contributing editor for Archaeology Magazine, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Slate.

 

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