A Line of Driftwood: The Ada Blackjack Story

In September 1921, a young Inupiat woman named Ada Blackjack traveled to Wrangel Island, 200 miles off the Arctic coast of Siberia, as a cook and seamstress, along with four explorers. The expedition did not go as planned. When a rescue ship finally broke through the ice two years later, she was the only survivor. Diane Glancy discovered Ada Blackjack's diary in the Dartmouth College archives and created a narrative based on the historical record and her vision of this extraordinary life. S...