Marooned in the Arctic : the true story of Ada Blackjack, the "female Robinson Crusoe" /

"In 1921, four men ventured into the Arctic for a top-secret expedition: an attempt to claim an uninhabited island in Siberia for Great Britain. With the men was a 23-year-old Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack, who had signed on as a seamstress to earn money to care for her sick son. Conditions s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Caravantes, Peggy, 1935- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, 2016.
Series:Women of action (Chicago, Ill.)
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