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Old 07-23-2010, 01:04 PM   #5693
WT Sharpe
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I'm currently reading White Seed: The Untold Story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke by MobileRead member Paul Clayton. I'm almost finished now and it's really spellbinding; but one thing surprised the heck out of me, and I can only assume it's a misprint (unless Paul Clayton works for DC comics).

In chapter 34 of my Kindle edition, I discovered the following curiosity:

.....Captain Stafford had Superman signal the charge on his trumpet and they raced into the square.

Superman???

Maybe The Man of Steel rescues the Lost Colony in the final chapter by flying around the Earth faster than light in a counter-clockwise direction and changing history!

Seriously, though; White Seed is a wonderful and imaginative retelling of the true-life mystery, and I highly recommend it.

And no, Superman—except for that one obvious misprint—isn't one of the characters.
I've been contacted by Paul Clayton, the author of that wonderful book, and told that the error has been fixed in all current editions (he had discovered it before I did). You can read his comments at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...95#post1021595.

In the mean time, let me just say that the rather humorous typo in no way diminished my enjoyment of his wonderful novel (after all, in a work of that size, a few errors are bound to appear), and if anyone hasn't yet done so, please check out White Seed: The Untold Story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke by Paul Clayton. You'll be glad you did.

From Publishers Weekly (from the Amazon page referenced above in the book title):
.....White Seed…hews closely to the record of Sir Walter Raleigh's second doomed attempt to plant the British flag in Virginia… The depiction of the colony's physical and moral disintegration between 1587 and 1590 -- as drunken, cannibalistic soldiers mutiny and brutalize the settlers they were meant to protect, and as colonists confront disease, starvation and madness -- evokes a harrowing sense of human fallibility. Readers…will find this saga, which…soon achieves page-turner velocity, to be both a dandy diversion and an entertaining education.
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