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5.0 out of 5 stars
All Gone Widdun,
By Linda Belote "book guru" (Hancock MI) - See all my reviews
This review is from: All Gone Widdun (Paperback)
This moving historical novel relates the story of Shanawdithit, the last known surviving Beothuk and William Epps Cormack, an Englishman who spent years looking for Beothuk survivors in the early 1800s. Based on thorough research, the novel takes us from the wild, almost unknown (to Europeans, of course) interior of Newfoundland, to "high society" in St. John's, to museums in Great Britain (to which, shamefully, the skulls of the three last known Beothuks, Shanawdithit, Demasduit and Nonosabasut were taken. Shanawdithit's skull was apparently destroyed in London as a consequence of WWII bombing. Demasduit and Nonosabasut are stored in the Mammals and Birds section of the Royal Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.) Although the author casts this work as fiction, it is as historically accurate as existing documents and the archaeological record permit. It's a super read.
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All Gone Widdun by Annamarie Beckel (Paperback - April 1, 1999)
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