Lost in the Antarctic by Tod Olson is about  an adventure to the Antarctic, with the ship Endurance trapped in ice, the crew had to survive in the Antarctic with little food and shelter. A cool part of this book is that the author put facts and historical events together in a way it seems like it is telling a story. Going to the Antarctic was something not all sailors wanted, most of the crew were just interested in the payment. While the crew knew they had to follow order from the boss, some of the crew started to doubt him.

I would recommend this book to everyone of those adventure lovers. This book tells you facts in an interesting way so you would want to continue reading. Here a some of my notes when I was reading this book.

 

As i was reading, I noticed that going to the Antarctic was something people were proud of, but only a small amount of people were interested in the voyage to  the Antarctic. most of the crew were interested in the pay they were given.

When I got to the middle of this book, i noticed how some of the crew were inexperienced, it seem like they were not aware of the upcoming challenges.  This leads to a central idea of the book, people should be aware of challenges when you have a big goal.

Nearing the end of the book, i realized something that came up over and over again was that when ever a plan failed, the crew started to doubt the boss. After reading this, I came up with another theme for this book, everyone makes mistakes, don’t judge people by their mistakes.

When i finished the book, I reviewed the connections lesson, I found quite a lot of extra information that connected to the story later on. For example, the boss said that losing fingers in the Antarctic was a common thing, in the 1st chapter, and by the end of the book, a men had lost his toe.

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