Karen Ordahl Kupperman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. Her book Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony was published by Rowman & Allanheld last year. She will take part in a discussion of the Roanoke voyages, the New World environment, and map making on the radio program “Soundings” to be broadcast over National Public Radio stations during the week of August 4. Also on the program will be Dr. Helen Wallis, the Map Librarian at the British Library.