num_pages: 224
description: A gripping true account of Tookoolito, a thirty-four-year old Inuit woman and translator whose extraordinary survival skills saved all nineteen members of the ill-fated Polaris expedition in 1871, vibrantly recreates the life of this woman referred to as the "Sacagawea of the Ice." 25,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Midnight to the North: The Inuit Woman Who Saved the Polaris Expedition
titlecomplete: Midnight to the North: The Inuit Woman Who Saved the Polaris Expedition
characters: Tookoolito
genres: History, Nonfiction, Biography
ratings_count: 55
places: Canada
awards: name: Pushcart Prize
publisher: Tarcher