La Malinche is reviled throughout Mexico as a traitor, a whore, the ‘Mexican Eve’ who sold her people out and was directly responsible for their downfall. Now, to pin the blame for an event as significant as the collapse of the Aztec Empire on a single person is pretty ridiculous anyway, but why would it land in particular on a translator who had been sold into slavery and was likely doing what she had to to survive?
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Ada Blackjack – Alone in the Arctic
Ada Blackjack knew that the expedition she was to embark on was dangerous. Not five feet tall, slim, terrified of polar bears, and with no practical survival skills, she was the least likely Arctic explorer you could imagine. But no-one could imagine just how wrong the expedition would go, and at the end, only Blackjack would be left alive.