Encounters on the Passage: Inuit Meet the Explorers

by Dorothy Harley Eber

Book Overview

Inuit elders who grew up in camps on the shores of Frobisher Bay can tell you what happened when Martin Frobisher arrived with his vessel in 1576: "He fired two warning shots into the air. So right away there were some grievances." Frobisher's shots were the opening salvos in the search for the Northwest Passage, a search that lasted for more than four hundred years and riveted the Western world, particularly in the nineteenth and early twentieth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802092756
• ISBN13: 9780802092755
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"