The Last Logbook No. 2 — Roanoke: The Word They Left Behind

In 1587, one hundred and fifteen English men, women and children were left on an island off the coast of what is now North Carolina. Three years later the relief ship found the houses taken down, the settlement empty, and a single word carved into a post: CROATOAN.

This is the companion book to Episode 2 of The Last Logbook — the full account the video could not hold.

68 pages. PDF and EPUB included.

Inside:

- The complete timeline, 1584 to 1590, from the first scouting voyage to the morning John White stood on an empty beach

- Why the colonists were on Roanoke at all — and why that was never the plan

- The agreement made before White sailed: where they would go, and the cross they would carve if they left under attack

- What the carved word actually meant, and what it did not

- The four theories, weighed one by one against the evidence that survives

- What the 2025–2026 excavations at Hatteras and inland have found — and, carefully, what has not yet been peer reviewed

- Full source list, with the primary documents named so you can read them yourself

Written the same way the episode is: nothing invented, the gaps left as gaps, and the difference between evidence and story kept visible on every page.