DAVID MACDONALD is professor emeritus of history at Illinois State University. He received a BA from California State University at Fresno and a PhD from the University of Minnesota. He is the author of a number of books and articles, including the companion volume, We Could Perceive No Sign of Them: Failed Colonies in North America 1526–1689.RAINE WATERS is an instructor at Heartland Community College. She received a BS and MS from Illinois State University. She is author, with David MacDonald, of Kaskaskia: The Lost Capital of Illinois and We Could Perceive No Sign of Them: Failed Colonies in North America 1526–1689.

“European settlements in the age of colonization in the Caribbean and South America were precarious ventures beset by a manifold of difficulties. Some survived; many did not. In Neither Hee Nor Any of His Companie Did Return Againe, David MacDonald and Raine Waters examine the colonies that did not survive and how their failure played an important role in European settlement in the New World. From Columbus to the Confederacy, MacDonald and Waters give us insight into these all-but-forgotten failed colonies, the conditions they faced, and how the difference between a successful colony and a failed one was slight. Methodically researched, this book uses a variety of approaches to form a larger picture of European settlement in the Caribbean and South America that goes beyond the New World and across the Atlantic. MacDonald and Waters again show us that there is value in studying failure.”—Jacob Bourboun, University of North Dakota

DAVID MACDONALD is professor emeritus of history at Illinois State University. He received a BA from California State University at Fresno and a PhD from the University of Minnesota. He is the author of a number of books and articles, including the companion volume, We Could Perceive No Sign of Them: Failed Colonies in North America 1526–1689.RAINE WATERS is an instructor at Heartland Community College. She received a BS and MS from Illinois State University. She is author, with David MacDonald, of Kaskaskia: The Lost Capital of Illinois and We Could Perceive No Sign of Them: Failed Colonies in North America 1526–1689.

“European settlements in the age of colonization in the Caribbean and South America were precarious ventures beset by a manifold of difficulties. Some survived; many did not. In Neither Hee Nor Any of His Companie Did Return Againe, David MacDonald and Raine Waters examine the colonies that did not survive and how their failure played an important role in European settlement in the New World. From Columbus to the Confederacy, MacDonald and Waters give us insight into these all-but-forgotten failed colonies, the conditions they faced, and how the difference between a successful colony and a failed one was slight. Methodically researched, this book uses a variety of approaches to form a larger picture of European settlement in the Caribbean and South America that goes beyond the New World and across the Atlantic. MacDonald and Waters again show us that there is value in studying failure.”—Jacob Bourboun, University of North Dakota

DAVID MACDONALD is professor emeritus of history at Illinois State University. He received a BA from California State University at Fresno and a PhD from the University of Minnesota. He is the author of a number of books and articles, including the companion volume, We Could Perceive No Sign of Them: Failed Colonies in North America 1526–1689.RAINE WATERS is an instructor at Heartland Community College. She received a BS and MS from Illinois State University. She is author, with David MacDonald, of Kaskaskia: The Lost Capital of Illinois and We Could Perceive No Sign of Them: Failed Colonies in North America 1526–1689.

“European settlements in the age of colonization in the Caribbean and South America were precarious ventures beset by a manifold of difficulties. Some survived; many did not. In Neither Hee Nor Any of His Companie Did Return Againe, David MacDonald and Raine Waters examine the colonies that did not survive and how their failure played an important role in European settlement in the New World. From Columbus to the Confederacy, MacDonald and Waters give us insight into these all-but-forgotten failed colonies, the conditions they faced, and how the difference between a successful colony and a failed one was slight. Methodically researched, this book uses a variety of approaches to form a larger picture of European settlement in the Caribbean and South America that goes beyond the New World and across the Atlantic. MacDonald and Waters again show us that there is value in studying failure.”—Jacob Bourboun, University of North Dakota