Q2 outside reading post # 8

The second book I read over break was a quick fun history read named Resolute by Martin W. Sandler. Its all about the explorers searching for the northwest passage. A fabled trade route connecting the Pacific ocean and Atlantic ocean. It then goes on to talk about the ordeals of sailing through the Arctic Ocean, telling stories of how ships would become frozen in the ice and how they would get lost because the ice would move and block off the way they got there or just trap them. The amazing thing is that there was always expeditions going out to find the fabled Northwest Passage for hundreds of years, they never found a way to cross the passage put they kept  on trying. The book ends on a lighter stranger note, the last fourth of the book is about a funny strange story where one of the prized ships sent to find the Northwest Passage disappeared and was thought lost, not only to have wailers near Greenland find it a year later, when the ship was presumably released from the ice with its crew missing. It was a exciting news story in England and America for a while, The Queen when the ship was found had two desks make from the ship and the desks were called the Resolute desks. England kept one desk and as a present gave America the other one. To this day the Resolute desk is in the Oval Office. Resolute was a fun easy history read that I would recommend.