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pp. 218, appendix, notes, sources, black and white and color photographs throughout. “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 northwest passage. His ships entered Hudson Bay and were not seen again until almost three centuries later when Owen Beattie and John Geiger discovered them submerged and well-preserved near the remote Marble Island, known to the Inuit as ‘Dead Man’s Island.’ ‘Dead Silence’ is an archaeological detective story. Following their success in resolving the mystery of the fate of the Franklin expedition of 1845 (the story told in their bestseller ‘Frozen in Time’), Beattie and Geiger have used every available technique – historical clues, archaeological excavations, forensic analysis of human remains, the discovery of the missing ships – to cast new light on the Arctic’s greatest mystery. ‘Dead Silence’ haunts the reader, as, piece by piece, the authors discover what really happened. It climaxes with the cruel revelations that some of Knight’s men escaped the grim island only to meet their destruction in the vast Barren Lands, and that the last man left on the island died ‘attempting to dig a grave’ for his last companion. The authors not only reveal the truth of Knight’s fatal adventures but uncover a tale of intrigue and betrayal.” previous owners name on FEP