Book Review

The Iceman’s frozen body was found in an Alpine valley on the border between Austria and Italy, in dwindling glacier ice during the fall of 1991. He was indeed “ the poor man who died alone in the snow”, as the children said. But he was no missing tourist, just a man of the Alps who had been overtaken by the cold about 53 centuries ago.

...The account is very clearly written. Lessem is best-known for his admirable work on dinosaurs, events a million centuries past. Any good reader can grasp this vivid story of an old accident, though the photos of the hunter’s head and body so long held in the ice could be scary for the young.

~ Philip amd Phylis Morrison, Scientific American exerpt