![]() ![]() Prepared for only one year on the island, Blackjack and her companions - Allan Crawford, Lorne Knight, Fred Maurer and Milton Galle - found themselves instead battling for survival through two long, lean winters, with no word when relief would come. ![]() Stranded on a lonely Arctic island, part of an exploration gone fatally wrong, Blackjack displayed a depth of courage that earns her a place among any heroes of the Age of Exploration. The story of Ada Blackjack is so remarkable, I'm amazed I've never heard of her before, or in fact that she's not one of those figures whose names we commit to memory from our youngest years. ![]() Rambles: Jennifer Niven, Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the ArcticĪda Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic ![]()
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