Ada Blackjack is more than a rugged tale of a woman battling the elements to survive in the frozen north-it is the story of a hero. Jennifer Nivens first book, The Ice Master, was named one of the Top Ten Nonfiction Books of the Year by Entertainment Weekly and was selected for the Barnes. Jennifer Niven has created an absorbing, compelling history of this remarkable woman, taking full advantage of the wealth of first-hand resources about Ada that exist, including her never-before-seen diaries, the unpublished diaries from other primary characters, and interviews with Ada's surviving son. Only on one occasion-after charges were published falsely accusing her of causing the death of one her companions-did she speak up for herself. But whatever stories the press turned out came from the imaginations of reporters: Ada Blackjack refused to speak to anyone about her horrific two years in the Arctic. This young, unskilled woman-who had headed to the Arctic in search of money and a husband-conquered the seemingly unconquerable north and survived all alone after her male companions had perished.įollowing her triumphant return to civilization, the international press proclaimed her the female Robinson Crusoe. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedition. In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive 25-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Great Britain. Urn:oclc:795565231 Republisher_date 20120323075756 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120322100958 Scanner the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island IN SEPTEMBER 1923, a diminutive twenty-five-year-old Eskimo woman named Ada Blackjack emerged as the heroic survivor of an ambitious polar expedition. OL8571398W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 91.99 Pages 474 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:078688746X Urn:lcp:adablackjacktrue00nive:epub:68eb17dc-4dc8-4b1c-83cc-e2285e248297 Extramarc University of Michigan Foldoutcount 0 Identifier adablackjacktrue00nive Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6c26083v Isbn 9780786868636Ġ786868635 Lccn 2003050826 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary OL23271358M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:53:59 Boxid IA174001 Boxid_2 CH108301 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĬityofsausalitolibrary Edition 1st ed.

Ada Blackjack by Jennifer Niven