The Beothuk expedition
By: Derek Yetman
Publisher: Breakwater Books; Breakwater Books Ltd.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [St. John's, N.L.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781550813609
Subjects: Beothuk Indians; Fiction
Description: "Greed and compassion collide in this robust and spirited account of the 1768 Cartwright expedition. Jonah Squibb and his Royal Navy companions are tasked with making the first peaceful contact with the Beothuk in more than a century and a half, contending with an unforgiving wilderness and unscrupulous merchants and politicians. The novel breathes new life into events that sealed the fate of the Beothuk and etched the very soul of Newfoundland."--Cover, p. [4].