Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack, the "Female Robinson Crusoe" (Women of Action) Divorced Women trying not to think about

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Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack, the "Female Robinson Crusoe" (Women of Action) Divorced Women trying not to think aboutThe first and only young adult book about Ada Blackjack and her remarkable, true life survival story In 1921, four men ventured into the Arctic for a top secret expeditionan attempt to claim the remote, uninhabited Wrangel Island in northern Siberia for Canada. With the men was a 23 year old Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack, who had signed on as a cook and seamstress to earn money to care for her sick son, left at home. Conditions soon turned dire for