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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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Bibliography: p. [369]-381
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 917.19/5041/092
- General Note
- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0773508333 9780773562899
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- F1103
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- W66 1991eb
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- 1 electronic text (xiv, 390 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- List of Maps, Figures, and Tables 10
- Author's Note 12
- Acknowledgments 14
- Illustrations 16
- Introduction 22
- PART ONE: THE EVIDENCE 28
- 1 First Contact 30
- 2 The Investigation 42
- 3 The Witnesses 56
- 4 Omanek and Adam Beck 75
- 5 Poctes Bay 88
- 6 A Season of Search 102
- 7 Crozier's Choice 117
- 8 Victory Point 129
- PART TWO: THE TESTIMONY 140
- 9 Incident at Teekeenu 142
- 10 Nuvertaro 158
- 11 Toonoonee 171
- 12 Keeuna 182
- 13 Pooyetta's Search 199
- 14 Toolooa and Aglooka 213
- 15 Toolooark's Ships 228
- 16 "Then Aglooka Was the Eshemuta" 246
- 17 Aglooka's Ship 267
- 18 Keeweewoo 281
- 19 The Trail to Shartoo 289
- 20 In-nook-poo-zhe-jook's Boats 310
- 21 Too-shoo-art-thariu 324
- 22 The Verdict 338
- APPENDICES 344
- 1 Erebus and Terror Crew List 346
- 2 Inuit Place Names 350
- 3 Principal Witnesses 353
- 4 Lead Poisoning 355
- 5 Glossary of Terms 358
- Notes 360
- Bibliography 386
- Index 402
- A 402
- B 402
- C 403
- D 403
- E 404
- F 404
- G 404
- H 405
- I 405
- J 405
- K 405
- L 406
- M 406
- N 406
- O 406
- P 407
- Q 407
- R 407
- S 407
- T 408
- U 408
- V 409
- W 409
- Y 409
