ICE BOUND; A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
New York: talk miramax books / HYPERION, 2001. Photos, map. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED/SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with silver lettering on spine over black boards, illustrated with preliminary / "frontispiece" map of the South Pole & 8 pages of B&W glossy photographs, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) of Dr. Nielsen by John Penney, xvi, [xvii-xviii] + 362 pages. Very Fine / Very Fine. Item #3507
ISBN: 9780786866847
Dr. Jerri Lin Nielsen (née Cahill; 1952 – 2009) was an American physician with extensive emergency room experience, who bravely and skillfully self-treated her breast cancer during 1998 while stationed at Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica until she could be evacuated safely. The cancer went into remission for seven years.--Wiki abridged
The brave-hearted,intrepid, and moving story of a skilled ER doctor who managed her own surgery when isolated at the South Pole. INSCRIBED & in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally! Tight, bright, clean! NOT signed on a bookplate. No remainder marks!
Price: $35.00