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How I Survived

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An excellent, short, and informative graphic novel about Inuit methods for surviving on the ice. As entertaining as it was beautiful to look it.

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It might not feel like it, but knowing how to survive on ice is a very important skill to have. After all, you never know when you are going to need it.
I didn't know about the gas/water tip, honestly, as he was explaining it, I thought there was no way that would work, but it did. Then it didn't lol.
That being said, I wish it had more useful tips in here, and that he commented on his mistake of eating all of the food on the first day, instead of rationalizing it.

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This is a short graphic novel with pretty good illustrations. There really wasn't much to the story. I was expecting a bit more depth and information on how he survived four nights on the ice. Overall, this was just so so.

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This is a fast -paced personal account of a man being lost in the frozen north. Graphic illustrations make for easy and enjoyable reading. Lots of good lessons if you take the time to think about them.

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This had a really neat premise and it was interesting to see insight into this setting, but I knew going into it that it felt a little worrisome that the book was only 48 pages, and I was right to be concerned. It's so short that nothing really happens, and there's so little text on each page that it makes this issue even more prominent. Altogether, I was sadly bored and ready for it to end even with how short it was.

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This was a very short comic about how Serapio Ittusardjuat used traditional skills and knowledge he learned to stay alive. This is a first person account of how he spent four nights on the ice after his snowmobile broke down.

This was extremely short, but it was interesting. The artwork was good and I learned a few things about surviving in cold temperatures. I do wish that it had been longer or tought more traditional skills that are used to survive.

*ARC provided by Netgalley for an honest review.*

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A short, simple story that really doesn't convey the fear or danger of being stuck out on the ice for four nights. The art work is good, but it is probably not a story that needed to be turned into a book.

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This tiny graphic novel was a quick read but I really enjoyed it! Ittusardjuat is an Inuit artist and shares a piece of his life as an Indigenous person and how he was taught to survive when modern equipment fails. A nice little read if you're looking to support Indigenous authors!

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Thanks to NetGalley for an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

Not much to the story. Took about 15 min to read.

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