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Dead silence

by John Geiger · 1993

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This account of excavations at Marble Island ('Dead Man's Island')near Rankin Inlet in Hudson Bay, attempts to provide an explanation of the disappearance of the forty members of James Knight's expedition of 1719 to discover the Northwest Passage. It includes discovery of their submerged ships, and of evidence of a winter camp.

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Setting
ArcticArcticMore like thisLess of thisArctic RegionsArctic RegionsMore like thisLess of thisBritishBritishMore like thisLess of thisNorthern CanadaNorthern CanadaMore like thisLess of thisNorthwest PassageNorthwest PassageMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 218 pages

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