perhaps most important of all

it is also a chronicle of two people from very different cultural and scientific heritages learning to understand and appreciate each other's distinct yet complementary ways of viewing the land we share

and the trajectory of this brilliant novel

The book describes how the national monument came about and its deep significance to five Native tribes

A Line of Driftwood: The Ada Blackjack Story Mohican perhaps most important of all"This moving retelling of a heroic womans journey demonstrates that history lives through an intimate connection between two women beyond times borders."Booklist, starred review 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 professional explorers. The expedition did not go as planned. When a rescue ship finally broke through