![]() ![]() ![]() By trapping foxes, hunting seals and dodging polar bears, Blackjack fights for her life and for the future of her ailing son, whom she left back home in Alaska, and for whose health-care expenses she agreed to take the trip. Niven's hero is the slight, shy Blackjack, who, though neither as worldly wise as her companions nor as self-sufficient, learns to take care of herself and a dying member of her party after the team is trapped by ice for almost two years and the three others decide to cross the frozen ocean and make for Siberia, never to be seen again. But with a lack of proper funding a grandstanding, do-nothing Svengali of a leader and an inexperienced crew, the mission was doomed from the start. and Canada and Ada, a 23-year-old Inuit woman-set out under a Canadian flag to claim a barren rock in the tundra north of the new Soviet Union for the British Empire. ![]() The explorers-four young white men from the U.S. The beauty of Niven's tale (after The Ice Master) 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. ![]()
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