![]() ![]() ![]() She taught herself to shoot a shotgun and a rifle. 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, ill team member whom she cared for but who soon died of scurvy. Conditions soon turned dire for the team when, after rations ran out, they were unable to kill enough game to survive. With the men was a 23-year-old Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack, who had signed on as a cook and seamstress to earn money to care for her sick son, left at home. The first and only young adult book about Ada Blackjack and her remarkable, true-life survival story In 1921, four men ventured into the Arctic for a top-secret expedition-an attempt to claim the remote, uninhabited Wrangel Island in northern Siberia for Canada. Always Available Audiobooks for Children. ![]()
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