- Hardcover: 408 pages
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press; First Edition edition (July 25 1991)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0773508333
- ISBN-13: 978-0773508330
- Product Dimensions: 25.6 x 18.4 x 3.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 930 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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- #31 in Books > Travel > Canada > Provinces > Territories
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"Undoubtedly the most authoritative, cool-headed and thrilling investigation so far." Jonathan Keates, London Observer. "Woodman has examined all the documentation on Inuit testimony with relentless thoroughness. He has made a vitally important, long overdue contribution ... It is a book anyone obsessed with Franklin will want to have." M.T. Kelly, Toronto Star. "Compelling reading ... On a warm week at an Ontario lakefront cottage, I sat inside turning unwieldy page proofs ... and could not stop." Christopher Moore, Books in Canada. "Woodman is ... an indefatigable and creative researcher, and gifted in the ability to convey dauntless enthusiasm for the obscure hieroglyphs that Franklin's history left us in its wake." John Moss, Arctic Circle. "Woodman's book will be invaluable ... to those who can't get enough on the Franklin mystery." Ian Mayer, Montreal Gazette. "Brilliant ... a joy to read ... It unfolds slowly like a good detective story ... The time is ripe for a fresh, new, original book about John Franklin. This is it." C. Stuart Houston, Department of Medical Imaging, University of Saskatchewan. "Woodman has done an excellent job of gathering Inuit testimony and presents a new emphasis which allows new interpre-tations and conclusions with regard to the Franklin epic." Dorothy Harley Eber, author of When the Whalers Were Up North.
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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 quotes was recorded by 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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
An Excellent Work! THE definitive work to date on this Expedition,
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This review is from: Unravelling the Franklin Mystery (Paperback)
This surely must the THE definitive work to-date on the Franklin Expedition. The inclusion of the Inuit testimonies changes the complexion of the sad Story quite a lot. And the stories they tell, lead us to different places, both with the leadership of the Expedition, the decisions made by them up to, and after being frozen in. The most exciting 'news' in this book leads us to explore for the wrecks, records and artifacts in (before now) ignored areas.This is a marvelous work.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Unravelling of the Unravelling The Franklin Mystery,
By Joe Klein "Joe" (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony (Hardcover)
Excellent book for the serious Franklin enthusiast.I give the writing 5 stars but...... the physical construction of the paper back book gets zero stars. My book started falling apart the moment I took it out of the plastic wrapper! I would expect this from a two hundred year old book but not a new book. Mr. Woodman, your publisher/binder should issue a recall and replace these defective books. Obviously no quality control whatsoever was exercised.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Advanced reading for Franklin mystery detectives.,
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This review is from: Unravelling the Franklin Mystery (Paperback)
David Woodman's research for this book is exciting to think about -- carefully turning the thousands of pages from journals written over a hundred years ago -- could he see the fear of frozen fingers (and more) in the marks of thick ink? Woodman's retelling of Sir Franklin's fascinating story is built upon an amazing act of pinning down the oral histories from another culture to the pages of ours. Above all, this book pays tribute to this wonderous art of the Inuit. And speaking of 'our' pages, my paper back edition has come unglued from its spine in just one month! Serious readers my wish to ante up for the hardcover.
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