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Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony (Volume 5) (McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies) Paperback – March 9, 2015

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David Woodman's classic reconstruction of the mysterious events surrounding the tragic Franklin expedition has taken on new importance in light of the recent discovery of the HMS Erebus wreck, the ship Sir John Franklin sailed on during his doomed 1845 quest to find the Northwest Passage to Asia. First published in 1991, Unravelling the Franklin Mystery boldly challenged standard interpretations and offered a new and compelling alternative. Among the many who have tried to discover the truth behind the Franklin disaster, Woodman was the first to recognize the profound importance of Inuit oral testimony and to analyze it in depth. From his investigations, Woodman concluded that the Inuit likely visited Franklin's ships while the crew was still on board and that there were some Inuit who actually saw the sinking of one of the ships. Much of the Inuit testimony presented here had never before been published, and it provided Woodman with the pivotal clue in his reconstruction of the puzzle of the Franklin disaster. Unravelling the Franklin Mystery is a compelling and impressive inquiry into a part of Canadian history that for one hundred and seventy years left many questions unanswered. In this edition, a new preface by the author addresses the recent discovery and reviews the work done in the intervening years on various aspects of the Franklin story, by Woodman and others, as it applies to the book's initial premise of the book that Inuit testimony holds the key to unlocking the mystery.

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"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

"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." Toronto Star

"Compelling reading ... On a warm week at an Ontario lakefront cottage, I sat inside turning unwieldy page proofs ... and could not stop." Books in Canada

"Woodman's book will be invaluable ... to those who can't get enough on the Franklin mystery." 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, University of Saskatchewan

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David C. Woodman is a senior master for BC Ferries and lives in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGill-Queen's University Press; 2nd edition (March 9, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 424 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0773545417
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0773545410
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.75 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches

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Born and raised in London Ontario, Dave Woodman grew up on and under the waters of Lake Huron sailing and scuba diving. After stints at university and as a boat-builder his love of the water led him to the Canadian Navy where he served for a decade, specializing in navigation and submarines. Upon his return to civilian life he obtained his Master’s Certificate and has remained in the maritime industry serving on various classes of ships and ashore. He retired in 2016.

Formally trained as a historian, Captain Woodman is well known as the author of two books dealing with the ill-fated Third Sir John Franklin Expedition. Woodman’s work concentrated on the profound importance of the Inuit testimony surrounding Franklin’s fate and he was the first to analyze it in depth. He concluded that Inuit visited Franklin’s ships and that they actually witnessed the sinking of one of the ships. Since 1992 he has led or participated in ten expeditions to Canada’s Arctic in search of that wreck and the grave site of Sir John Franklin himself. The search for Franklin and his ships HMS Erebus and Terror, perhaps the greatest maritime mystery of our time, continues.

Woodman is married and the proud father of two daughters, and grandfather. He lives in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada.

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One of the most important - and most disturbing - works on the Franklin Expedition

Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2019

This latest edition of David Woodman's now classic 1991 monograph on Franklin's Expedition reminds us of just how important it has become to the history and historiography of this tragic episode of Arctic exploration. It's absolutely essential reading for any serious student of the Franklin Expedition.

It is not just that Woodman takes Inuit oral testimony (proven accurate subsequently in so many ways, not least in the discovery of the wrecks of the ships in 2014 and 2016) so seriously, but the quite plausible and intricate speculative narrative of the expedition's mysterious final years he weaves out of it. Indeed, not just plausible, but *probable* - it simply makes more sense of the evidence we do have to hand. This is evident up front in the introduction, where Woodman lays out two columns of speculative conclusions made about critical events in the expedition - the first column representing the previous (pre-1991) consensus on that event, and the second column his revisionist theory. And what becomes most immediately striking about Woodman's revisionist narrative is that he posits that expedition survivors lived on much longer than previously assumed: rather than all dying quite quickly in the summer and fall of 1848, that the majority were likely still alive into the winter of 1849, with some surviving as late as 1851.

If true, it would be a testament to the resilience and resourcefulness of Franklin's officers and crew in such a desolate and lethal environment. But disturbing, too, in suggesting not only how long their suffering may have been drawn out, but that they did so while such a vast array of search expeditions were frantically underway in 1848-51 - all of them, alas, looking in the wrong places.

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This book is obviously very well researched and thought out. It's very interesting to read about all the theories concerning Inuit testimony and comparing them with my own views which are constantly changing with new information. Considering the location and the relative condition of the more recent Erebus and Terror finds, much of the testimony and related speculation seems not far off. The Terror Bay encampment looms!

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Rigorous historical analysis - and a lot of fun.

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2015

Having become gradually more and more obsessed with tales of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration - starting with tales of Shackleton, via Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Barrow's Boys and Jennifer Niven's wonderful pair of Arctic explorations - I discovered this book and immediately put in an order for the forthcoming second edition.

I devoured every page. It is extremely unusual among histories of the Arctic, the Franklin Expedition, the North West passage and so on, in that here, the Inuit are not merely shadowy and mysterious figures around the edges of the narrative - they and their voices are CENTRAL. This provides fascinating perspectives and insights, not only to the general topic of Anglo/American Arctic explorations of the second half of the 19th Century, but more specifically, to the Franklin Tragedy. To pick a random example - many have criticized the planners of Franklin's expedition for not providing Inuit-style fur clothing (as used by other explorers like Rae, hall and Peary), relying instead on wool and other fabrics. Woodman, in this book, points out that it takes 7 caribou skins to make one suit of winter clothing. So - to equip Franklin's crew of around 130 would have required the hunting over nearly 1000 caribou! If all the Inuit of the region joined forces with the crew to hunt, it would still have taken years.

As a piece of original research, the book is quite densely argued, and takes its time to sift through the evidence, weighing up the value of various forms of testimony, and coming to conclusions that are always tentative. This adds to the authority of the conclusions that Woodman allows himself - as does the finding of HMS Erebus more or less where Woodman predicted.

As well as rigorous historical analysis, there is room for poetry and mystery. The Inuit accounts of lost officers and crewmen staggering across the ice, meeting Inuit hunters, exchanging goods and food, and then disappearing into the mists - if you aren't moved by them, then your own heart must be frozen! Wonderful stuff, and Woodman has to be thanked for giving so much of his time and energy to this book, which has become one of the keystones of research in this area.

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