Dead Silence: The Greatest Mystery in Arctic Discovery by Owen Beattie, John Geiger

Dead Silence: The Greatest Mystery in Arctic Discovery

Owen Beattie, John Geiger

219 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction biography history dark mysterious slow-paced
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In 1719 the Englishman James Knight, then in his seventies and vastly experienced in Arctic travel, set out with two ships and forty men to find the north-west passage. His ships entered Hudson Bay and were not seen again until almost three centur...

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