Ada Blackjack: a true story of survival in the Atlantic
Biography, Indigenous peoples biography
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Ada Blackjack was an unskilled 23-year-old Inuit woman from Nome, Alaska, who signed on as a seamstress for a top-secret expedition to the far North, to colonize desolate Wrangel Island. When the expedition went wrong, Ada was left on her… own but managed to return home, only to be tricked, exploited and hounded by journalists and others. A true story of a woman who survived a terrible time in the wild only to face a different ordeal in civilization. 2003.
Title Details
ISBN
9780786868636
Publisher
Hyperion
Copyright Date
2003
Book number
2381361
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
Anne Saxton
Duration
16 hours 17 minutes 44 seconds
Audio producer
CNIB, 2005.