The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare Brock Kimberly
Based on real history and alternating between the story of war widow Alice searching for identity in the 1940s and excerpts from Eleanor Dare's Commonplace Book and the tale of her harrowing survival,…
Specifikacia The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare Brock Kimberly
Based on real history and alternating between the story of war widow Alice searching for identity in the 1940s and excerpts from Eleanor Dare's Commonplace Book and the tale of her harrowing survival, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare explores the meaning of female history and the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter.The fate of the world is often driven by the curiosity of a girl.In 1937, a large stone covered in strange markings made headlines. Scholars quickly determined it was a message written hundreds of years ago and signed by "EWD," presumably Eleanor White Dare, the daughter of the colonial governor of Roanoke. The entire Roanoke colony had vanished in the late sixteenth century and "The Dare Stone," as it came to be called, seemingly revealed the sorry fate of the colonists as well as that of