Encounters on the Passage : Inuit meet the explorers

Eber, Dorothy.

Book 2008

"Inuit elders who grew up in camps on the shores of Frobisher Bay can tell you what happened when Martin Frobisher arrived with his vessel in 1576: 'He fired two warning shots into the air. So right away there were some grievances.' Frobisher's shots were the opening salvos in the search for the Northwest Passage, a search that lasted for more than four hundred years and riveted the Western world, particularly in the nineteenth and early twentiet...

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Explorateurs Nunavut Histoire

Explorers Northwest Passage History

Explorers Nunavut History

Histoire orale

Inuit Nunavut History

Inuits Nunavut Histoire

Nord-Ouest, Passage du Découverte et exploration britanniques

Northwest Passage Discovery and exploration British

Oral history

Oral tradition Nunavut

Tradition orale Nunavut

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ISBN:

9781442611030

Description:

xxii, 168 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Prologue: Opening salvos
Into the Arctic Archipelago: Edward Parry at Igloolik and the shaman's curse
John Ross at Kablunaaqhiuvik--the 'Place for Meeting White People'
The Franklin ear: burial of a great white shaman
The death marches: 'They were seen carrying human meat'
New Franklin stories: the ship at Imnguyaaluk
A Northwest Passage on foot
and lost opportunity
Norwegian victory: 'Amusi' and the prize
Modern times
Appendix 1: Rumours of Hudson
Appendix 2: Charles Francis Hall and the lost men

LCCN:

2009277071

Control Number:

2886278

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