Author: Sir William Edward Parry
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Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 780

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Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Author: Abraham de Vlieger
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Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Author: David C. Woodman
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773509368
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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David Woodman's reconstruction of the mysterious events surrounding the disappearance of two British exploration vessels in 1845, under the command of Sir John Franklin, challenges standard interpretations and promises to replace them. Among the many who have tried to discover the truth behind the Franklin disaster, Woodman recognizes the profound importance of the Inuit testimony and analyzes it in depth. He concludes from his investigations that the Inuit probably did visit Franklin's ships while the crew was still on board and that there were some Inuit who actually saw the sinking of one of the ships. He maintains that fewer than ten bodies were found at Starvation Cove and that the last survivors left the cove in 1851, three years after the standard account assumes them to be dead. Woodman also disputes the conclusion of Owen Beattie and John Geiger's book Frozen in Time that lead-poisoning was a major contributing cause of the disaster.

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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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Author: David C. Woodman
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773582177
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419

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David Woodman's classic reconstruction of the mysterious events surrounding the tragic Franklin expedition has taken on new importance in light of the recent discovery of the HMS Erebus wreck, the ship Sir John Franklin sailed on during his doomed 1845 quest to find the Northwest Passage to Asia. First published in 1991, Unravelling the Franklin Mystery boldly challenged standard interpretations and offered a new and compelling alternative. Among the many who have tried to discover the truth behind the Franklin disaster, Woodman was the first to recognize the profound importance of Inuit oral testimony and to analyze it in depth. From his investigations, Woodman concluded that the Inuit likely visited Franklin's ships while the crew was still on board and that there were some Inuit who actually saw the sinking of one of the ships. Much of the Inuit testimony presented here had never before been published, and it provided Woodman with the pivotal clue in his reconstruction of the puzzle of the Franklin disaster. Unravelling the Franklin Mystery is a compelling and impressive inquiry into a part of Canadian history that for one hundred and seventy years left many questions unanswered. In this edition, a new preface by the author addresses the recent discovery and reviews the work done in the intervening years on various aspects of the Franklin story, by Woodman and others, as it applies to the book's initial premise of the book that Inuit testimony holds the key to unlocking the mystery.

Author: Edward Parry (bp. of Dover)
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Author: Edward Parry
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Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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