Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic

In September 1921, Ada Blackjack, a young Inupiat woman from Nome, Alaska, joined four young men on an expedition organized by the explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson to claim remote Wrangel Island, north of Siberia, for Great Britain. She had signed on as a seamstress, hoping to earn money to care for her son. Two years later she emerged as the expedition's sole survivor, having lived for months entirely alone on the island after her companions died or disappeared. The press called her the female Robinson Crusoe, but Ada refused to tell her story. Drawing on her diaries, the unpublished journals of the expedition's members and interviews with her surviving son, Jennifer Niven, author of The Ice Master, reconstructs an extraordinary tale of endurance and quiet courage. 431 pages, with photographs and maps.

Condition: Hardcover with dust jacket. Used, in excellent condition, with minor wear along the edges of the dust jacket.