Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic

When twenty-three-year-old Inuit Ada Blackjack signed on as a seamstress for a top-secret Arctic expedition, her goal was simple: to earn money in order to provide for her young son. She and four men set out into the far North together in September 1921, but as winter set in, the expedition was beset by hardship, starvation, and tragedy. When Ada found her way back to civilization two years later, she was the expedition's sole survivor.

Ada Blackjack's gripping tale of her survival in the wild, and of the chaos and upheaval that attended her return to the world, comprises one of the most amazing untold adventures of the twentieth century. Drawing on Ada's never-before-seen diaries, bestselling author Jennifer Niven brings to vivid life the true story of a woman whose courage and determination defied society's expectations and made her an unlikely-and until now, unheralded-hero.