Carl Schuster

Your categorization of this book as "Fairy Tale" is insulting and demeaning. The book is wonderful. Anyone trying to understand the discovery and exploration of the North will cherish this slender volume. When I first learned of the Louis Bird tapes at The University of Winnipeg, I was treated as though I had a raging case of intellectual leprosy. There are hours of tapes that can be listened to through the internet. As the late Senator, Patrick Daniel Moynihan wrote, "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not everyone can have their own facts." Some of them appear to corroborate the Abacuk Prickett Journal of 1610 - 11, contained in Georg Asher's "Henry Hudson, the Navigator". Why is it that indigenous traditions are termed "fairy tales" when Anglo/American history is, as George Santayana, wrote, "…a pack of lies, about events that never happened, written by people who weren't there!" Carl G. Schuster