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

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.)
Subjects:
Blackjack, Ada, > 1898-1983 > Juvenile literature.
Blackjack, Ada, > 1898-1983.
Inuit women > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Women explorers > Arctic regions > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Inuit women > Biography.
Women explorers.
Women > Biography.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Biography & Autobiography > Women.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Biography & Autobiography > Historical.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Adventure & Adventurers.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Biography & Autobiography > Cultural Heritage.
Discoveries in geography.
Inuit women.
Arctic regions > Discovery and exploration > Juvenile literature.
Wrangel Island (Russia) > Discovery and exploration > Juvenile literature.
Arctic regions > Discovery and exploration.
Wrangel Island (Russia) > Discovery and exploration.
Arctic Regions.
Russia (Federation) > Wrangel Island.
Biographies.
Biography.
Juvenile works.
Teen nonfiction.

Evans: Curriculum Collection (4th floor)

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Call Number: E99.E7 B65629 2016
 
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