Ada Blackjack : A True Story of Survival in the Arctic (Paperback)

from punxsygal

This was a wonderful book about the ill conceived plan and woefully unprepared members of the 1921 expedition to occupy Wrangel Island in the "friendly" Arctic. Four men and one woman, an Eskimo named Ada Blackjack, set out to claim and occupy the island for Great Britain. One man, Fred Maurer, h...

from SeriousGrace

Jennifer Niven calls Ada Blackjack a hero. I don't think I would go that far. She didn't save anyone's life and her heroic deeds were limited to having the courage and resourcefulness to survive her unlikely predicament physically unscathed. I say unlikely because what would a impoverished and di...

from punxsygal

This was a wonderful book about the ill conceived plan and woefully unprepared members of the 1921 expedition to occupy Wrangel Island in the "friendly" Arctic. Four men and one woman, an Eskimo named Ada Blackjack, set out to claim and occupy the island for Great Britain. One man, Fred Maurer, h...

from nyiper

Incredibly detailed and just plain fascinating. The twists and turns are exactly like a novel---except, of course, that it's a true story, as it says on the cover. The manipulations of those behind the expedition and the eventual rescue of Ada are crushingly disappointing, to put it mildly---gree...

from punxsygal

This was a wonderful book about the ill conceived plan and woefully unprepared members of the 1921 expedition to occupy Wrangel Island in the "friendly" Arctic. Four men and one woman, an Eskimo named Ada Blackjack, set out to claim and occupy the island for Great Britain. One man, Fred Maurer, h...