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Summary: Excellent book about a doctor's survival and coming of age
Review: Forget the two-sides to the story. This book isn't about her ex-husband or her children. This book is about one of the men and women who wintered at South Pole Station, enduring the hardships, isolation and potential life-threatening crisis of living in such a remote, inaccessible place on Earth. I believe it was a coming of age for Dr. Nielsen. Her story is essentially accurate and portrays life in the U.S. Antarctic Program better than anyone in recent years has written. As for the flag - it certainly wasn't Dr. Nielsen's fault or the fault of the publisher that the flag was upside down. Someone at the station put the flags up - was it the welder or the carpenter or the station manager? So someone goofed. Do we alter the photo to make it politically correct, thereby deceiving the public? Sounds like the evening news, to me. Get back to the real story, which is excellent.
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Summary: Ice Bound
Review: I loved this book!! Not only do you get to know a very brave woman dealing with breast cancer but you find out about all the incredible and harsh living conditions at the South Pole. Jerri Nielsen is an amazing lady and so are the others that helped her through this incredible trial. I had a very hard time putting this book down. She has my very best wishes!!
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Summary: Look at the book and quit trying to find dirt!
Review: This whole story is more than most people could experience in a life time. I found it not only hearwarming but a more encouraging and optimistic view of cancer. These people shared an experience that probably none of us will ever get to know in that they valued another human life to the extent of putting their own on the line. I'm very disapointed in the reviews that knocked the cover for one (too bad you couldn't get beyond that because you missed the whole point) to the person that wrote about the divorce. You obviously didn't watch Dateline and see the hurt in her eyes as she told of her experience. Who cares - this story isn't about a divorced person, so you missed the point too, and were too busy trying to dig dirt on someone that has suffered enough. It was a great book and story and I'd like to see anyone else go through that with the same courage and fortitude. I hope I could do half what she did and come out as well. She believes in herself again and that's what counts.
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Summary: Polar tale warms the heart
Review: ICEBOUND, by Dr. Jerri Nielsen, is an astonishing book on several levels: -it shows that cancer is not a hopelessly incurable disease; if "Doctor Jerri" could get treatment at the South Pole, there is even greater hope for the rest of us -it makes a doctor next-door-neighbor human in an age where doctors do nearly godlike repairs to the human body -it book takes you to the most remote outpost on the planet, taking us as close as most of us will ever get to being astronauts -it depicts how a group of total strangers become lifelong friends through their most potent weapon against their shared adversity: their raw humanity As a former resident of the Frozen continent, I was so taken by the book that I felt out-of-place reading it without my parka. Congratulations on this insightful and intimate look into you personal and professional life, Doctor Jerri.
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Summary: A must read
Review: This book provides an incredibly fascinating look at life at the south pole and the people who live there. You are transported into an entire subculture of people who have chosen to live their life isolated from the rest of the world for an entire year, and, as a result of that isolation have created a community and a family that could probably never exist anywhere else. Maryanne Vollers and Dr. Nielsen take you into that world create a image of the pole as a home, as it was for Nielsen. I couldn't put it down.
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Summary: Warm account of a chilling story
Review: I came to eagerly write about this moving book, only to find two "comments", not REVIEWS of Ice Bound, the book. They give no insight into the book whatsoever, and that's a shame. Jerri Nielsen's fascinating story of courage and redemption at the South Pole should not be missed. Whatever her previous situation, this woman found herself dying of aggressive cancer at the bottom of the world, with few options and an admirable concern for her colleagues. The events that transpire over a matter of a few dark months serve to illuminate the qualities of some resourceful, and compassionate people. Jerri Nielsen is to be admired, but she is not the only hero in this lovely book. It's a work of beauty and warmth -- even those who are phobic could find themselves wanting to be a part of the fiercely loyal and gently-accepting tiny community in that dome in Antarctica. Jerri Nielsen is a remarkable woman, a caring physician, and obviously a spirited, loving person who, through adversity and "chilling" conditions, finds the best part of her self. Don't just buy this book for yourself; pass it on, give it as a gift. You'll wish you were 1/100th as calm, courageous, self-effacing, and determined as this amazing woman and those who come to her rescue.
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Summary: Heroes are human, too!
Review: Dr Nielsen shares her story of struggle and triumph with warmth and a generous spirit! I am in awe of her challenges, both personal and physical. She applauds the contributions of the Polie community and the Airmen as heroes, and rightly so. And she is also a hero! I cannnot think of a more captivating book. Let the controversy over her decision to sign up for this unusual position begin. She openly lets her feelings of sadness be known over being cut off by her children. Only those who have witnessed or experienced such cruel control in abusive relationships will understand. The rest of us need to be compassionate and open to portrayals of these human struggles to survive. Dr Nielsen's writing is alive and lyrical. Her love of people is written all over every page. Anyone who loves an honest and compassionate well written personal story will love this book!
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Summary: Incredible
Review: This is one of the most inspirational stories I've heard in a long while. It's an incredible story of the will to survive and what can be nothing else than divine intervention. Amazing.
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Summary: a courageous woman, with an incredible story
Review: This story is an incredible one, full of pain, self awareness and joy. It is both heart-renching and uplifting. We should all have the courage that Dr. Jerri Nielsen had, and still has. To question our existance, and be brave enough to survive(in this case cancer) and endure(in this case, by operating on her self!). What the other reviewers fail to recognize is that we all have failures in our life, the true test of a person is proving that those can be overcome. To be able to read a true story of one woman who brought joy to those people around her, and had such a strong will to endure will make us all better. It is a great read, and a great inspiration.
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Summary: Ice Bound Review
Review: I found this book to be an inspiration. The story is about the tribulations and triumphs of a women facing death. There are always two sides to a divorce, but that is not the focus of the story! Try to at least give the women credit for overcoming cancer! As for the front cover, write to the publishers or to the UN. The story was great and more women should be as brave, heck more men should be as brave! GREAT story!
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