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Young Adult Nonfiction Adventure & Adventurers

How I Survived

Four Nights on the Ice (Inuktitut)

by (author) Serapio Ittusardjuat

illustrated by Matthew K. Hoddy

Publisher
Inhabit Media
Initial publish date
Mar 2020
Category
Adventure & Adventurers, Aboriginal & Indigenous, Biography, Canada
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781772272826
    Publish Date
    Mar 2020
    List Price
    $17.95
  • Downloadable audio file

    ISBN
    9781772274035
    Publish Date
    Nov 2021
    List Price
    $6.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781772274264
    Publish Date
    Jan 2024
    List Price
    $18.95

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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels

  • Age: 12 to 18
  • Grade: 8 to 12
  • Reading age: 12 to 18

Description

After his snowmobile breaks down halfway across the sea ice on a trip back from a fishing camp, Serapio Ittusardjuat recounts the traditional skills and knowledge he leaned on to stay alive.

This harrowing first-person account of four nights spent on the open sea ice—with few supplies and no water—shows young readers the determination and strength necessary to survive in the harsh Arctic climate, even when the worst occurs.

About the authors

Serapio Ittusardjuat was born in a qarmaq (sod house) at Akunniq (between Hall Beach and Igloolik, Nunavut) on February 1, 1945. He went to residential school in Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut, and Fort Churchill, Manitoba. He has studied art, jewellery making, and metalwork at Ottawa School of Art and Nunavut Arctic College, and is a certified journeyman mechanic. Serapio comes from a long line of walrus hunters. He organizes walrus hunts from his summer camp every year. He also goes caribou hunting with family and friends. He now lives in Toronto, Ontario, with his wife.

Serapio Ittusardjuat's profile page

Matthew K. Hoddy is an illustrator, comic book author, and animator hailing from Brisbane, Australia. Matt came to Toronto in 2014 on a working holiday and never left. His work ranges from material for children and young adults, all the way through to autobiographical and introspective works. He is co-creator of the Space Pyrates and Saga of Metalbeard comics.

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