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Ada Blackjack : : a true story of survival in the Atlantic
| Title | Ada Blackjack : : a true story of survival in the Atlantic |
| Names | Niven, Jennifer. |
| Book Number | DBG03401 |
| Title Status | Download Only |
| Medium | Digital Book |
| Download Link | Downloadable talking book. |
| Annotation | 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. Unrated. Marrakesh title. |
| Narrator | Saxton, Anne. |
| Local Subject | Biography & Autobiography - BIO |
| Adult Book - AD | |
| Adult Non-Fiction - AN | |
| Geography - GOG | |
| Travel & Geography - TRA | |
| History - HST | |
| Women's Interest - WOM | |
| General Non-Fiction - GNF | |
| History - Modern World - HWO | |
| Audience Notes | Female narrator. |
| Unrated. |
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| LC Subject | Inuit women - Biography |
| Women explorers - Arctic regions - Biography |
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| Arctic regions - Discovery and exploration |
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| Wrangel Island (Russia) - Discovery and exploration |
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| Nonfiction |
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| Biographies |
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| Call Number | 915.77 B ANF |
| Language | English |
| Released | 2003 |
| Publication Info | Toronto : CNIB, 2003 |
| Original Publication | Recorded from: New York : Hyperion, 2003. |