Roanoke the Abandoned Colony by Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Well I had high hopes for the non-fiction looking at the early Roanoke colony in Virginia (some several decades before Jamestown). But like too many books by historians the writer took a super fascinating subject and made it boring and dull. The book is difficult to read due to the writing. I also felt the author failed to really look at some interesting facets of the story. Like how could a father just give up and accept that he had left his daughter and newborn grandchild for good in the wilds of the Americas? Over all disappointing. It did make me want to find a good book on this subject and also to find a biography on Thomas Harriet- an English scientist who made many amazing discoveries but has remained mostly unknown as he never published.