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Old 04-12-2009, 08:15 AM
 
Location: Barrow, Alaska
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That's "Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic" by Jennifer Niven. Available for $1.25 and up at ABEBooks.com
A few other things should be pointed out. It is not a novel, but a history. Ada Blackjack was not Aleut either; she was born in Soloman, lived mostly in Nome, and was Inupiat Eskimo. (She was rather attractive when she was young, lived into her 80's, and is buried in Anchorage.)

The expedition to Wrangell Island was a project of Vilhjalmur Stefansson. The intent was to claim Wrangell Island for either Canada or Britain (not the US). That has to be considered as nothing more than a hairbrained bit of poppycock!

The US in the 1820's had threatened Russia with military action if they tried to claim any "Right of Discovery" in North America (the Monroe Doctrine, which basially declared that Right of Discovery was a dead issue and in the Western Hemisphere the US would enforce that with military action if necessary). Hence the concept of claiming ownership of Wrangell Island could not have been well founded even in the late 1800's.
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Old 04-12-2009, 12:33 PM
 
Location: The end of the road Alaska
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Well excuse me for the errors. I wasn't trying to give a history, just trying to relate a great book about a great woman I'd read several years ago. You sound rather pompous today.
Happy Easter!
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Old 04-13-2009, 08:44 PM
 
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The proper spelling of the island in question is "Wrangel" island not the more familiar "Wrangell" island that everyone is more familiar with in the SE Alaska. It's a common mispelling for the Russian island.

The Russian one
Wrangel Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wrangel Island (island, Russia) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
Wrangel Island, Russia : Image of the Day

The U.S. one
Wrangell Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://infoaboutalaska.com/communities/wrangell-island/


Thought I'd point it out since we're being all correct and whatnot, Floyd.
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