Encounters on the Passage : : Inuit Meet the Explorers / / Dorothy Harley Eber.
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 sear...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chronology and Maps of Principal Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth- Century Arctic Expeditions by Sea
- Prologue: Opening Salvos
- 1 Into the Arctic Archipelago: Edward Parry in Igloolik and the Shaman’s Curse
- 2 John Ross at Kablunaaqhiuvik – the ‘Place for Meeting White People’
- 3 The Franklin Era: Burial of a Great White Shaman
- 4 The Death Marches: ‘They were seen carrying human meat’
- 5 New Franklin Stories: The Ship at Imnguyaaluk
- 6 A Northwest Passage on Foot – and Lost Opportunity
- 7 Norwegian Victory: ‘Amusi’ and the Prize
- 8 Modern Times
- Appendix One: Rumours of Hudson
- Appendix Two: Charles Francis Hall and the Lost Men
- Notes
- Illustration Credits
- Index