The Secret Token
by Andrew Lawler
A sweeping account of America’s oldest unsolved mystery, the people unearthing its answer, and what the Lost Colony reveals about America today.
“Fast-paced and wonderfully written, with plenty of surprising turns along the way, The Secret Token is a delight.”
Nathanial Philbrick, New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition
“Riveting and carefully researched.”
Candice Millard, New York Times bestselling author of Hero of the Empire
“A beguiling narrative… This seminal tale of loss and longing helps explain who we are today.”
Dean King, New York Times bestselling author of Skeletons on the Zahara
The Secret Token
by Andrew Lawler
A sweeping account of America’s oldest unsolved mystery, the people unearthing its answer, and what the Lost Colony reveals about America today.
“Fast-paced and wonderfully written, with plenty of surprising turns along the way, The Secret Token is a delight.”
Nathanial Philbrick, New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition
Why Did the Chicken Cross the World
The world’s most important bird is also the animal that humans take most for granted. In a book that the Wall Street Journal calls “fascinating and delightful,” Andrew Lawler takes the reader around the world and through time to reveal how the chicken helped transform our ideas about God, sex, and gambling long before the invention of the Chicken McNugget
About Andrew Lawler
Andrew Lawler is author of two books and more than a thousand newspaper and magazine articles. A contributing writer for Science and contributing editor for Archaeology, he has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and others. His work has appeared several times in The Best of Science and Nature Writing.
Recent Articles by Andrew Lawler
Cannabis, opium use part of ancient Near Eastern cultures
For as long as there has been civilization, there have been mind-altering drugs. Science | April 20th 2018
Ancient sites savaged in Yemen, Iraq
Across northern Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State (IS) group devastated antiquities during its reign of terror starting in 2014, pulverizing classical statues such as those of Palmyra in Syria and bulldozing a 3000-year-old ziggurat at Iraq’s Nimrud.
Neandertals, Stone Age people may have voyaged the Mediterranean
Odysseus, who voyaged across the wine-dark seas of the Mediterranean in Homer’s epic, may have had some astonishingly ancient forerunners.
