Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack

Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack book cover — Dedicated to the memory of my parents John and Dorothy Garner Huddleston

Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack — page 1 — AUTHOR S NOTE MY PURPOSE IN WRITING this book is to share the story of Ada Blackjack Johnson an incredibly courageous woman who became the only survivor of an Arctic expedition in the early 1920s However her story cannot be told without including the men who inter acted with her These were the expedition's sponsor Vilhjalmur Stefansson and the four men with whom she shared the experience Allan Crawford Lorne Knight Frederick Maurer and Milton Galle Between each of the first six chapters is a short biography of one of the men Most of Ada’s story appears in the latter chapters because there is very little information available about her earlier life I have chosen to use the term Eskimo rather than today’s preferred Inuit in referring to Ada because that was the terminology used at the time of her sto ry The men are mostly referred to by their last names and Ada by her first name this was done to avoid confusion as that is how they are discussed in the sources quoted Most of the story is based on the diaries of Lorne Knight and Ada Blackjack as well as on fragmentary notes written by Milton Galle As the reader will learn at the end of the book these manuscripts

Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack

Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack

Determined to be reunited with her son, Ada learned to survive alone in the icy world by trapping foxes, catching seals, and avoiding polar bears

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Published by: Chicago Review Press with IPG

9-12Age Range

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206Pages

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4-5 hoursReading Time

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