Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony (Mcgill-Queen's Native and Northern Series)
by David C. Woodman
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Woodman 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. Much of the Inuit testimony presented in Unravelling the Franklin Mystery has never before been published. The earliest Woodman "es was recorded by show more Franklin searchers only nine years after the disappearance of the Franklin team. Inuit testimony provided Woodman with the pivotal clue in his re-construction of the puzzle of the Franklin disaster: I proceeded from the assumption that all Inuit stories concerning white men should have a discoverable factual basis . [and] managed to discover a scenario which allowed use of all of the native recollections, solved some troubling discrepancies in the physical evidence, and led to some significant new conclusions as to the fate of the beleaguered sailors. Whether or not one agrees with Woodman's conclusions, his account is compelling and his analysis impressive. show lessTags
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David C. Woodman is a senior master for BC Ferries and lives in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.
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- Original publication date
- 1991 (first edition) (first edition); 2015 (second edition with new preface) (second edition with new preface)
- People/Characters
- Sir John Franklin; Lady Jane Franklin; Aglooka, Inuit name for Northwest Passage explorer (s); George Back; Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier; Eshemuta (show all 18); James Fitzjames; William H. Gilder; Charles Francis Hall; In-nook-poo-zhe-jook; Francis Leopold McClintock; John Rae; Knud Rasmussen; James Clark Ross; John Ross; Frederick Schwatka; Toolooa; Toonoonee
- Important places
- Canadian Arctic; Northwest Passage; Adelaide Peninsula, Canada; Great Fish River; Igloolik; King William Island (show all 8); Montreal Island, Canada; Ootgoolik
- Dedication
- For Aglooka,
whoever he was. - First words
- Introduction
On 28 July 1845 two British exploration vessls, HMS Erebus and Terror, manned by 129 intrepid officers and seamen under the command of Sir John Franklin, were seen disappearing into the ic... (show all)e-pack in Davis Strait by a lonely whaling ship.
Preface to the Second Edition:
Revisiting the
Fraklin Mystery
When the manuscript for Unravelling the Franklin Mystery was finished in 1988, and published in 1991, it was meant to be the end of a long b... (show all)ut enjoyable research and writing project.
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