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Summary: "In 1921, Inupait seamstress Ada Blackjack joined a a group of four white men who wanted to establish a trading post on Wrangel Island in the freezing Arctic Ocean. The explorers were stranded on the island when their return ship was forced to turn back due to ice. Facing harsh conditions and dwindling food supplies, the men died one by one, but Ada remained. Find out how she alone managed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.92 PHICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC PHILourie, Peter
Summary: A riveting adventure biography of Fridtjof Nansen, the pioneer of polar exploration, with a focus on his harrowing three-year journey to the top of the world. A celebrity among the ranks of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton at the turn of the twentieth century, Fridtjof Nansen contributed tremendous amounts of new information to our knowledge about the Arctic. At a time when the North Pole was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NANHarmon, Daniel E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 2002