Dead silence
Subtitle: the greatest mystery in Arctic discovery
By: John Geiger and Owen Beattie.
Contributors: Beattie, Owen.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Toronto, Ont., Canada; New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Knight, James, d. 1720? -- Travel.; Northwest Passage.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-209) and index.