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Strangers among us /
In 1868 American explorer Charles Francis Hall interviewed several Inuit hunters who spoke of strangers travelling through their land. Hall immediately assumed that the hunters were talking about survivors of the Franklin expedition and set off for the Melville Peninsula, the location of many of the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal, Que. ; Buffalo :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©1995.
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| Colección: | McGill-Queen's native and northern series ;
10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In 1868 American explorer Charles Francis Hall interviewed several Inuit hunters who spoke of strangers travelling through their land. Hall immediately assumed that the hunters were talking about survivors of the Franklin expedition and set off for the Melville Peninsula, the location of many of the sightings, to collect further evidence to support his theory. Hall's theory was roundly dismissed by historians of his day, who concluded that the Inuit had been referring to other white explorers, despite significant discrepancies between the Inuit evidence and the records of other expeditions. In Strangers Among Us Woodman re-examines the Inuit accounts in light of modern scholarship and concludes that Hall's initial conclusions are supported by Inuit remembrances, remembrances that do not correlate with the travels of other expeditions but are consistent with those of Franklin's. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 166 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773565630 0773565639 1282853600 9781282853607 9786612853609 6612853603 |
| ISSN: | 1181-7453 ; |