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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Longlist (2020) set against the backdrop ofFrom the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island. In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive 25 year old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Great Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedition.