Crawford sweet-talked her they denied her supper they made her sleep outside in the cold. 80: The men tried one thing after another to persuade Ada to settle into a predictable routine. They bought a hundred dollars worth of the best books by authors-from Thomas Carlyle to Rabelais. They shared a love of reading and knew the books would help to ease the long solitude that lay ahead. 44: Before they left Seattle, all four men stopped in at the Old Book Store to browse their secondhand stock. The author is anti-Stefansson to some extreme, and while she may have some good points it would be difficult to verify them given the inadequacy of the documentation provided. A readable but tendentious biography of the lone survivor of four men and one woman on Stefansson’s Wrangel Island expedition of 1921-23.
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