'Encounters on the Passageis alive with suggestions for enthusiast still seeking Franklin's grave or his lost record books or his sunken ships. But what stand[s] out is how the Inuit experienced those crazy incursions. Eber's stories bring home the true weirdness of these aliens and their great vessels, suddenly planting themselves amidst the people. the richest material in this book. is not what it says about a few doomed intruders from the south, but the role it plays in storing and preserving Inuit storytelling.' --Christopher Moore, The Beavermagazine, November 2008 Encounters on the Passageis a very worthy contribution to the store of preserved Inuit oral traditions. It serves as a useful reference and introduction to the stories relating to explorers that are otherwise scattered throughout the literature on British Arctic Exploration, and sets them in clear context. --David C.

Woodman, The Arctic Book Review 'Encounters on the Passageis an extraordinary and important work. This is the first book to present the surviving Inuit oral traditions and stories about early explorers from the times of Sir John Franklin and Roald Amundsen's arctic voyages. Dorothy Harley Eber's interviews with Inuit elders offer not only echoes of older stories, but also new stories which have not been heard or collected until now. Complete with richly illustrative visual materials, Encounters on the Passagefascinatingly shows how Inuit have represented explorers and offers a long-overdue alternative to the all-too-familiar explorers' representations of Inuit.' --Russell Potter, Department of English, Rhode Island College.