Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at theSouth Pole by Jerri Nielsen, Maryanne Vollers

Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at theSouth Pole

Jerri Nielsen, Maryanne Vollers

377 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

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During the winter of 1999, Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the only physician on a staff of forty-one people, discovered a lump in her breast. Consulting via satellite e-mail with doctors in the United States, she was forced to perform a biopsy and treat herse...

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Moods

reflective 100%
adventurous 75%
emotional 75%
informative 75%
funny 50%
hopeful 50%
inspiring 50%
sad 50%
challenging 25%
lighthearted 25%

Pace

medium 75%
slow 25%

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3.84

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