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DEAD SILENCE
The Greatest Mystery in Arctic Discovery
"A lively and entertaining read . . . Perhaps the greatest achievement of the book is that it helps us to understand why Knight is such a compelling figure. He is presented as one of those individuals who stood for more than himself – as a symbol of his own time and place, when Britain reached out with both hands to take what the world had to offer, and as one of the first of the great Canadian crazies."
– The Northern Mariner
"Fascinating history, great adventure and scrupulous scientific detection…an eerie tale."
– The Edmonton Journal
"The last few pages of this excellent book are devoted to unveiling a new theory on the fate of the Knight expedition. And arctic history buffs will not want to miss that."
– Canadian Geographic
"Dead Silence constitutes a mournful testimony to the power of self-delusion among both leaders and planners of North-West Passage expeditions. The catastrophe it reconstructs bears the classic profile of the doomed voyage to terra incognita, in which an irrational conviction increasingly supplants the practical requirements of basic survival ...What Geiger and Beattie uncovered ... in their minutely detailed archaeological survey of Knight's encampment, was evidence of yet another attempt at establishing a European modus vivendi rather than any conscious effort being made to adjust to immediate natural conditions."
- Jonathan Keates,Times Literary Supplement
"An important study of the Knight expedition and its fate."
- Prof. Glyndwr Williams
"The story of the Knight expedition remained a forgotten and unsolved mystery ... But now due to the fascinating work of Owen Beattie, a University of Alberta anthropologist, and John Geiger, a talented historical researcher, we have a better idea of what actually happened no Marble Island so many years ago. Dead Silence is an intriguing and riveting book."
- Winnipeg Free Press
"Often, as human beings, we forget just how much courage and determination we possess. Dead Silence reminds us."
- The Calgary Sun
