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
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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

informative 87%
adventurous 75%
reflective 75%
emotional 50%
inspiring 50%
challenging 37%
funny 37%
hopeful 37%
sad 25%
dark 12%
lighthearted 12%

Pace

medium 71%
slow 28%

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3.86

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