SuitabookLost in the Amazon
Tod Olson
- Reading
- Try reading a chapter at a time and pause after major turning points to check how the survival situation is affecting your reader. The glossary may help with unfamiliar terms.
- Themes
- Learning to survive: Juliane is stranded in the rainforest and draws on what her scientist parents taught her as she tries to reach safety. The balance between event narrative and broader explanation is not clear.
- A real-life survival account: The book presents Koepcke’s experience as a real-life story of surviving a plane crash in the Amazon. Its stated focus is a survivor’s experience; the balance between event narrative and broader explanation is not clear.
- Worth knowing
- The premise includes a plane breaking apart in a storm, a fall from thousands of feet and being stranded after the crash. These events may feel intense for readers unsettled by accidents or survival danger.