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The strange shore is the Atlantic coastline of what is now the United States. Seventy years after Columbus found this continent there were no settlements on this shore, although explorers had mapped parts of it.
Edith McCall tells the dramatic stories of the first courageous souls who tried to gain a toehold on the fringe of land between the sea and wilderness.
The people are real and their stories are true.
The book begins with the handful of hungry Frenchmen who try to make a go of Fort Caroline. There are the Spanish at Fort Augustine; the English who disappear without a trace from Roanoke Island; the enduring settlement at Jamestown; the Plymouth Colony resulting from the Mayflower being off her course.
—from the dust jacket
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