Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole by Jerri Nielsen
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I think most that remember recall the success of the off-season rescue (just a few weeks early, really) of this intrepid doctor from the South Pole. That actual event and the events after are all the last several pages, maybe a half-dozen. Most of the book, and what was really interesting, was what led Dr. Nielsen to "winterover", the community of "polies" and their culture, challenges, and daily life, and how they respond and react to this threat to one of their own. In many ways, this is an epistolary telling formed with commentary around reprinted e-mail communications which works much better than I would have thought.
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