With excerpts from diaries, letters, and telegrams historic photos a map source notes and a bibliography, this is an indispensible resource for any young adventure lover, classroom, or library. The first young adult book about Blackjacks remarkable story,Marooned in the Arcticincludes sidebars on relevant topics of interest to teens, including the use cats on ships, the phenomenon known as Arctic hysteria, and aspects of Inuit culture and beliefs. After she was finally rescued in August 1923, after two years total on the island, Ada became a celebrity, with newspapers calling her a real female Robinson Crusoe.
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. Three of the men tried to cross the frozen Chukchi Sea for help but were never seen again, leaving Ada with one remaining team member who soon died of scurvy. Conditions soon turned dire for the team when they were unable to kill enough game to survive.
With the men was a young Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack, who had signed on as cook and seamstress to earn money to care for her sick son. In 1921, four men ventured into the Arctic for a top-secret expedition an attempt to claim uninhabited Wrangel Island in northern Siberia for Great Britain.
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