Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole by Jerri Nielsen

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

Jerri Nielsen with Maryanne Vollers

377 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

Description

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

informative 83%
adventurous 66%
reflective 66%
emotional 50%
challenging 33%
funny 33%
hopeful 33%
inspiring 33%
sad 33%
dark 16%
lighthearted 16%

Pace

medium 66%
slow 33%

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3.85

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