Rate: 3/5
Medium: AudioBook
Overview (No Spoilers): A few years ago, when my husband (then boyfriend) started commuting an hour to work each way his mother gave him an audiobook called Frozen in Time about WWII soldiers being stranded on the glaciers of Greenland when their planes had crashed. Luke has a special interest in WWII, specifically plane crashes and survival due to his Grandpa’s plane crashing in Germany during the war and his subsequent imprisonment in a POW camp. Luke thoroughly enjoyed the narrative, and encouraged me to give the book a listen. However, being completely overwhelmed with graduate school at that point, my recreational reading had fallen to naught. Fast forward to present day, I was pleased to have stumbled across Frozen in Time again, and imagine my surprise when I realized it would be my second book by Mitchell Zuckoff, with the first being, Lost in Shangri-La. The story of survival, endured by the men crashed on the glacier was truly astounding, especially regarding the horrors and deprivations encountered. I found myself constantly comparing their crash in the cold compared with the survival stories of those in the steamy jungle, which contained similar themes despite the vastly contrasting environments. Personally, I cannot decide which environment I would prefer to be stranded due to my equal distain for the cold weather and bugs. As with his previous book, Zuckoff has a narrative of his adventures to the locations in the present day, mixed with the stories of the past, as told through journals or letters. Overall, Frozen in Time is a engaging read in which the readers are transported to an unforgiving icy glacier that contains hidden dangers with every step. I couldn’t help but be reminded of The Martian in both of the Zuckoff stories, as inordinate amounts of time and money are spent to save men and women in two extreme environments on Earth, which are as inhospitable as Mars.
The Critiquing Chemist 
I haven’t heard of this book before! Maybe I should add it to my list of nonfiction books to read this year….
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Are you a big historical nonfiction fan? This would be great book for you to add! Have you heard of Zuckoff’s other book ‘Lost in Shangri-La’? Same concept only the people are stranded in a jungle during WW2.
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I actually just wrote a post about my nonfiction goals for 2016: https://bachelorettesandbooks.wordpress.com/et-cetera/reading-challenges/. I haven’t heard of Zuckoff at all, but I will definitely look into it! Thanks for the recommendation!
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Great reading list along a wide array of topics! One last suggestion. Going along with your jungle book to have you heard of the Lost City of Z? (https://critiquingchemist.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/lost-city-of-z-a-tale-of-deadly-obsession-in-the-amazon-by-david-grann/). A movie version of the book is coming out this year that looks to be entertaining.
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I actually did read this one!! So good!! That’s what got me into reading about that type of adventure!
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