All Gone Widdun

By Annamarie Beckel

All Gone Widdun is a work of fiction. Most of the major events in the novel are based on accounts in James P. Howley's classic, The Beothucks or Red Indians: the aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550811479
• ISBN13: 9781550811476
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Breakwater Books Ltd.
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

All Gone Widdun

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.