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Book Synopsis Mush to Nome by : David Muus Martinson
Download or read book Mush to Nome written by David Muus Martinson and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only the fittest can survive the extreme cold temperatures and severe winds of Alaska. Frostbite can set in quickly if one is not prepared or properly clothed, and the hardships of the arctic climate can present challenges for even the most skilled outdoorsman. But for one group of volunteers, not even this harsh Alaskan wilderness can stand in the way of helping someone when there is danger. Mush to Nome is based on a true story and follows these courageous supermen and their Eskimo dogs through this severe climate as they journey to save the lives of their fellow Alaskans. When an epidemic of diphtheria threatens the city of Nome, only the best dogs and dog mushers are chosen to deliver a life-saving serum to stop the threat. This illustrated story adds life and faces to the men and lead dogs who put themselves on the line and into the cold to save the people of Nome. And as a story told for all ages, narrator Charlie--a little lemming who hitches a ride with the dog teams on their way to Nome--chronicles this compelling tale of heroism in the face of adversity. So join Charlie and famous international mushers like Gunnar Kaasen, Leonhard Seppala, Martin Buser, and Susan Butcher--not to mention lead dogs like Balto and Togo--on this life-saving journey through the Alaskan wilderness. Spanning thousands of miles, it is a trek that would eventually inspire the Alaskan Iditarod Race in 1973.
Book Synopsis The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic by : Gay Salisbury
Download or read book The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic written by Gay Salisbury and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A stirring tale of survival, thanks to man's best friend." —Seattle Times When a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away, the port was icebound, and planes couldn't fly in blizzard conditions—only the dogs could make it. The heroic dash of dog teams across the Alaskan wilderness to Nome inspired the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and immortalized Balto, the lead dog of the last team whose bronze statue still stands in New York City's Central Park. This is the greatest dog story, never fully told until now.
Download or read book Winterdance written by Gary Paulsen and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1995 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paulsen and his team of dogs endured snowstorms, frostbite, dogfights, moose attacks, sleeplessness, and hallucinations in the relentless push to go on. Map and color photographs.
Download or read book The Legacy written by S.F. Gilbert and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legacy is several stories, intertwined and layered, that reveal more and plumb deeper than any one story could alone. It is set against the tableau of a heroic mush to save Nome during the great diphtheria epidemic of 1925. It is a story of Philippe Morrell and his lead dog, Balto, who made the run and the people, places and events that made his life stand out above those who had condemned him to the life of a social outcast. It is also a story that spans one hundred years in the lives of the Morrells, a prominent Canadian family who built and controlled a powerful financial empire, but also of what they owed to the man who was their patriarch. Philippe faced the harsh elements and his own demons during a ragging blizzard in subzero temperatures, driving his dogs and himself with superhuman effort to deliver the diphtheria vaccine from Nenana to Nome across 650 miles of rough pack ice and frozen rivers. Near the end of a life filled with tragedy and triumph, at the extreme limit of human endurance where sanity and madness meet, on the verge of death itself, he finds redemption in himself. The Legacy is both a sprawling adventure, a powerful love story and an intimate character study where past, present and future are inextricably joined. In the end, it reveals what beats in the heart of a great family.
Download or read book Mush! written by Joe Funk and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 40th anniversary tribute to the Last Great Race on Earth describes the brutal natural elements that challenge competitors, profiling the intrepid dogs whose history dates back to the famous Balto while sharing historical facts and offering insigh
Download or read book Granite written by Susan Butcher and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a raging Arctic blizzard, Granite helps Susan and the rest of the dogs brave the storm and win the Iditarod.
Download or read book Leonhard Seppala written by Bob Thomas and published by Pictorial Histories Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nome Kennel Club was founded ostensibly to sponsor races as a way to settle the never-ending dispute over who owned the best dogs. The club s rules for participation led to a greater respect for and care of sled dogs in a way that, until recently, had yet to be fully appreciated. That Leonhard Seppala and his Siberians became the ambassadors carrying the Nome Kennel Club s humane dog care message from Nome to New England was inevitable nice-looking, calm, friendly dogs who adored their driver and a charismatic man who loved his dogs.
Book Synopsis Race Against Death by : Seymour Reit
Download or read book Race Against Death written by Seymour Reit and published by Dodd Mead. This book was released on 1976 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the winter of 1925 a dog sled relay makes a life and death race against time through an Alaskan blizzard with a supply of serum needed to stop a diphtheria epidemic in Nome.
Book Synopsis The Adventures of Balto by : Pat Chargot
Download or read book The Adventures of Balto written by Pat Chargot and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balto, the great Alaska sled dog, has been dead since 1933. But he still stands larger-than-life on Dogdom's Mount Olympus, where the world's great canines are immortalized. Yet few people know Baltos true story. Only one small part has been told, and even it has been distorted. Several Balto books have been written. There's even a Balto animated movie, but it, too, is largely fiction. (Balto was NOT part wolf!) Like the books, the movie leaves off where this book begins — and tells the best part of the story. Balto was only three years old when he helped carry serum across Alaska from Nenana to Nome to save the town's children from diphtheria. As leader of the last dog team in the life-saving relay race, he became an overnight sensation — a BONEa fide international celebrity. But much more happened after that. Balto lived for eight more years. His days unfolded like a sled expedition to the North Pole, carrying him in an exhilarating rush over smooth snow one minute, an icy hummock the next. And how does the new story end? With a heart-thumping surprise that you can't imagine — and neither could have Balto. Hook up your harness, step into Balto's booties, and mush off to Balto's true story.
Book Synopsis Champion of Alaskan Huskies by : Katie Mangelsdorf
Download or read book Champion of Alaskan Huskies written by Katie Mangelsdorf and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Redington Sr. was an ordinary man with extraordinary dreams—and buckets of determination! His vision was as vast as the majestic Alaska landscape he loved to explore. This firsthand account is of the man whose love for the Alaskan husky and the Iditarod Trail evolved into the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Joe’s adventurous spirit, fierce perseverance, and creative heart burned strong within his character and enabled the impossible to become a reality. His spell-binding stories and genuine love of Alaska drew people into his dreams. This is the story of those unique feats that defined Joe’s life, and built the foundation for the most demanding and famous sled dog race in the world.
Book Synopsis Alone Across the Arctic by : Pam Flowers
Download or read book Alone Across the Arctic written by Pam Flowers and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pam spurned conventional rewards, entrusted her dream to eight powerful huskies, and set out alone to cross the Arctic. . . . a most extraordinary journey.” —Sir Ranulph Fiennes, renowned adventurer Eight sled dogs and one woman set out from Barrow, Alaska, to mush 2,500 miles. Alone Across the Artic chronicles this astounding expedition. For an entire year, Pam Flowers and her dogs made this epic journey across North America arctic coast. The first woman to make this trip solo, Pam endures and deals with intense blizzards, melting pack ice, and a polar bear. Yet in the midst of such danger, Pam also relishes the time alone with her beloved team. Their survival—-her survival—-hinges on that mutual trust and love.
Book Synopsis Where We Run by : Kathryn Marie Allen
Download or read book Where We Run written by Kathryn Marie Allen and published by Curious Cat Books. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be a dog sled musher is to thrive with and care for such a passion. Such a gift. A musher must breathe like a forest breathes - taking in the whole atmosphere and giving back even more. A musher must see as a rising sun sees - over every horizon, embracing the farthest distance and meeting the mightiest storm. With a touch as gentle as a wisp of fur and a courage constantly chased by avalanching snow - a musher drives passion.
Book Synopsis My Lead Dog Was A Lesbian by : Brian Patrick O'Donoghue
Download or read book My Lead Dog Was A Lesbian written by Brian Patrick O'Donoghue and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iditarod may be the only race that awards a prize for last place. But then how many people can even complete a course that ranges across 1,000 miles of Alaska's ice fields, mountains, and canyons at temperatures that sometimes plunges to 100 degrees below zero? In conditions like these, anything can go wrong. For Brian Patrick O'Donoghue, nearly everything did. In My Lead Dog Was a Lesbian, his reporter and intrepid novice musher tells what happened when he entered the 1991 Iditarod, along with seventeen sled dogs with names like Harley, Screech, and Rainy, his sexually confused lead dog. O'Donoghue braved snowstorms and sickening wipeouts, endured the contempt of more experienced racers (one of whom was daft enough to use poodles), and rode herd of four-legged companions who would rather be fighting or having sex. It's all here, narrated with self-deprecating wit, in a true story of heroism, cussedness and astonishing dumb luck.
Book Synopsis The Bravest Dog Ever by : Natalie Standiford
Download or read book The Bravest Dog Ever written by Natalie Standiford and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate a winter miracle with the true, inspirational story of Balto in this Step 3 Step Into Reading Early Reader. It is one of the worst storms ever - the snow has not stopped for days and it is 30 degrees below zero. But somehow Balto must get through. He is the lead dog of his sled team. And he is carrying medicine to sick children miles away in Nome, Alaska. He is their only hope. Can Balto find his way through the terrible storm? Find out in this exciting true story! Step 3 Readers feature engaging narratives about popular topics. For children who are ready to read on their own.
Book Synopsis Black Star, Bright Dawn by : Scott O'Dell
Download or read book Black Star, Bright Dawn written by Scott O'Dell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bright Dawn must face the challenge of the Iditarod dog sled race alone when her father is injured. Soon she realizes that the race and her life depend on how much she can rely on her lead dog, Black Star.
Book Synopsis Race Across Alaska by : Libby Riddles
Download or read book Race Across Alaska written by Libby Riddles and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1988-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. The author recounts her experiences in the 1985 Iditarod race from Anchorage to Nome Alaska, and shares her insights on strategy, sled dogs, and winter survival.
Download or read book Iditarod written by Penny Rennick and published by Alaska Northwest Books. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alaska Geographic is an award-winning series that presents the people, places, and wonders of Alaska to the world. Over the past 30 years, Alaska Geographic has earned its reputation as the publication for those who love Alaska. The series boasts more than 100 books to date, featuring communities from Barrow to Ketchikan, animals from bears to dinosaurs, history from the Russian explorers to today, and natural phenomena from the aurora to glaciers. Written by leading experts in their fields, these books are illustrated throughout with world-class photography and include colorful maps for reference.
