Ada Blackjack
A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
by Jennifer Niven
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Ada Blackjack served as the Inuit guide for four young men who, in 1923, trekked across the Arctic to an island north of Siberia, in order to claim it for Britain. Underfunded, underequipped, and misguided from the start, the expedition was a disaster. All four of the explorers perished, and Ada Blackjack was the only survivor. Having survived polar bears, food shortages, seal hunting, and a two-year period when the group was trapped by ice and unable to move, Ada returned home to her little son--and to a barrage of publicity and exploitation from the press and the public.
Editions of Ada Blackjack
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Hyperion Books |
Date 2003 |
Price $2.85 |
 Used; Good Hardcover. Sound, clean & nice copy, light edgewear. Jacket is bright & clean, light to moderate rubbing/ed |
Publisher Notes
An account of a young Inuit woman's ordeal alone on a remote, uninhabited Arctic island describes the efforts of Ada Blackjack and her four male companions to colonize desolate Wrangel Island, the deaths of her associates, her struggle to survive, and her eventual return to civilization, drawing on never-before-seen diaries and interviews with Ada's surviving son.
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