Ice bound : a doctor's incredible battle for survival at the South Pole / Jerri Nielsen with Maryanne Vollers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nielsen, Jerri.

Contributor:

Vollers, Maryanne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nielsen, Jerri--Health.

Nielsen, Jerri.

Breast--Cancer--Patients--Biography.

Breast.

Breast--Cancer--Patients.

Health.

Women physicians--Biography.

Women physicians.

Amundsen Scott South Pole Station (Antarctica)--Biography.

Amundsen Scott South Pole Station (Antarctica).

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 362 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Hyperion Books, [2001]

Summary:

Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six-year-old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year's sabbatical at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on Antarctica, the most remote and perilous place on Earth. The "Polies," as the inhabitants are known, live in almost total darkness for six months of the year, in winter temperatures as low as 100 degrees below zero -- with no way in or out before the spring.

During the long winter of 1999, Dr. Nielsen, solely responsible for the mental and physical fitness of a team of researchers, construction workers, and support staff, discovered a lump in her breast. Consulting via E-mail with doctors in the United States, she performed a biopsy on herself, and in July began chemotherapy treatments to ensure her survival until conditions permitted her rescue in October. A daring rescue by the Air National Guard ensued, who landed, dropped off a replacement physician, and minutes later took off with Dr. Nielsen.

This is Dr. Nielsen's own account of her experience at the Pole, the sea change as she becomes "of the Ice," and her realization that she would rather be on Antarctica than anywhere else on earth. It is also a thrilling adventure of researchers and scientists embattled by a hostile environment; a penetrating exploration of the dynamics of an isolated, intensely connected community faced with adversity; and, at its core, a powerfully moving drama of love and loss, of one woman's voyage of self-discovery through an extraordinary struggle for survival.

Contents:

1 The Geographic Cure 1

2 Through the Looking Glass 23

3 Great God, This Is an Awful Place 45

4 The Hard Truth Medical Centre 71

5 Going Polar 99

6 An Irish Airman Foresees His Death 123

7 Three Shades of Twilight 145

8 Darkness, Darkness 163

9 The Sea Change 185

10 The Other Side of Winter 215

11 From Hell on Earth 237

12 Club Med 259

13 The Longest Month 293

14 Endurance 317

15 Deliverance 337.

Notes:

"Talk Miramax books."

ISBN:

0786866845 :

OCLC:

46811570