Ada Blackjack: A True Story Of Survival In The Arctic - Brossura

Niven, Jennifer

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ISBN 10: 078688746X ISBN 13: 9780786887460

Casa editrice: Hyperion - Acquired Assets, 2004

Riassunto

An account of a young Inuit woman's ordeal alone on a remote, uninhabited Arctic island describes the efforts of Ada Blackjack and her four male companions to colonize desolate Wrangel Island, the deaths of her associates, her struggle to survive, and her eventual return to civilization, drawing on never-before-seen diaries and interviews with Ada's surviving son. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"The beauty of Niven's tale reveals itself slowly, in hard-to-find bits and pieces, mirroring the piecemeal dawning of dread that blanketed the book's five protagonists one winter in 1923 on a bleak Arctic island. "―Publishers Weekly

L'autore:

Jennifer Niven's first book, The Ice Master, was named one of the Top Ten Nonfiction Books of the Year by Entertainment Weekly and was selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers program. The book, which has been translated into nine languages, has been featured in such publications as Newsweek, the New York Times, Glamour, the Washington Post, Outside, and Writer's Digest, and was the subject of full-length documentaries on Dateline NBC and the Discovery Channel. For more information, visit www.jenniferniven.com.

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• Editore: Hyperion - Acquired Assets
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 078688746X
• ISBN 13: 9780786887460
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 463