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My Lead Dog Was A Lesbian

Author : Brian Patrick O'Donoghue
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307488535
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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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.

Mush Revised! A Beginner's Manual of Sled Dog Training

Author : Bella Levorsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979067600
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (676 download)

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Book Synopsis Mush Revised! A Beginner's Manual of Sled Dog Training by : Bella Levorsen

Download or read book Mush Revised! A Beginner's Manual of Sled Dog Training written by Bella Levorsen and published by . This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MUSH! is tailored to sled doggers of all levels of interest and experience. The beginner will appreciate the clear cut instructions for assembling his own equipment. The "old pros" will find its encyclopedic format of great and lasting value.

Dog Driver

Author : Miki Collins
Publisher : Alpine Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781577791614
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Dog Driver written by Miki Collins and published by Alpine Publications. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dog Driver is for anyone interested in sled dog training for recreational sledding, racing, or working. Based on personal sled dog experience in both racing and working sled dog teams, Miki and Julie Collins explain everything you need to know to select, raise, train and care for sled dogs, dog sledding equipment and even clothing. Learn to read and understand your dogs, as well as how to take care of injuries on and off the trail. You won't be stranded out on the trail if you study their advice on repairing harnesses and sleds. Plus, in Dog Driver, you'll get all the latest sled dog facts, know what it is really like to own mushing dogs and just what it takes to be among the top Iditarod dogs. Follow Miki and Julie through thousands of wilderness miles as they run their working sled dog teams to check on trap lines and deliver freight during the winter in the heart of Alaska.

Mushing, Mining, Money, And Murder in The Land Of The Living Skies

Author : Dr Joseph barake
Publisher : Dr Joseph Barake
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mushing, Mining, Money, And Murder in The Land Of The Living Skies written by Dr Joseph barake and published by Dr Joseph Barake . This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Way up North, in the vast, frozen, and pristine Wilderness, a small town called Portage Falls adopts a world class dogsled race in an effort to pull itself away from the edge of bankdruptcy. William McClarty, a genial used car lot owner, blessed with a generous gift of blarney, wins valuable mining claims in a poker game. The luck of the Irish deserts McClarty in his efforts to parley his poker winnings into millions. Instead, he is caught up in a web of intrigue that makes him a murder suspect. The grand finale plays out during the last stretch of the dogsled race in extremely challenging winter conditions in the breathtaking beauty of the unspoiled Northern Wilderness. "

Soldiers & Sled Dogs

Author : Charles L. Dean
Publisher : Bison Books
ISBN 13 : 9780803217287
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Soldiers & Sled Dogs written by Charles L. Dean and published by Bison Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sled dogs have been serving humans since they were first tamed and broken to the trace thousands of years ago. Their history of supporting soldiers is much more recent and, for all its drama and heroism, remains little known. This hundred-year history of canine military service from the frozen reaches of Alaska to the snowy battlefields of World Wars I and II is told fully for the first time in this book by former army officer and longtime sled dog aficionado Charles L. Dean. By way of original army documents, interviews with the last living dog drivers, and never before published photographs, Dean’s book tells a story that begins in Alaska, traverses two world wars and the Cold War era, and ends in the present-day Danish sledge patrol in Greenland. Here are the sled dogs drafted from Alaska and trained by French troops for use in the Vosges Mountains; improvised alpine sled dogs used by the Italians in the Great War; those deployed by the German SS in World War II; and others training in Montana’s Camp Rimini, Colorado’s Camp Hale, and Nebraska’s Fort Robinson. From the nitty-gritty of the making of a canine division to the high drama of dogs conducting daring rescues and parachuting to their destinations, this book richly supplies a missing chapter in military history and in the story of man’s best friend at war.

Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube

Author : Blair Braverman
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062311581
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube written by Blair Braverman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman reclaiming her courage in the stark landscapes of the north. By the time Blair Braverman was eighteen, she had left her home in California, moved to arctic Norway to learn to drive sled dogs, and found work as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska. Determined to carve out a life as a “tough girl”—a young woman who confronts danger without apology—she slowly developed the strength and resilience the landscape demanded of her. By turns funny and sobering, bold and tender, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube brilliantly recounts Braverman’s adventures in Norway and Alaska. Settling into her new surroundings, Braverman was often terrified that she would lose control of her dog team and crash her sled, or be attacked by a polar bear, or get lost on the tundra. Above all, she worried that, unlike the other, gutsier people alongside her, she wasn’t cut out for life on the frontier. But no matter how out of place she felt, one thing was clear: she was hooked on the North. On the brink of adulthood, Braverman was determined to prove that her fears did not define her—and so she resolved to embrace the wilderness and make it her own. Assured, honest, and lyrical, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube paints a powerful portrait of self-reliance in the face of extraordinary circumstance. Braverman endures physical exhaustion, survives being buried alive in an ice cave, and drives her dogs through a whiteout blizzard to escape crooked police. Through it all, she grapples with love and violence—navigating a grievous relationship with a fellow musher, and adapting to the expectations of her Norwegian neighbors—as she negotiates the complex demands of being a young woman in a man’s land. Weaving fast-paced adventure writing and ethnographic journalism with elegantly wrought reflections on identity, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube captures the triumphs and the perils of Braverman’s journey to self-discovery and independence in a landscape that is as beautiful as it is unforgiving.

Granite

Author : Susan Butcher
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 0975402900
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (754 download)

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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.

Beyond Ophir

Author : Jim Lanier
Publisher : Publication Consultants
ISBN 13 : 1594333556
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Ophir written by Jim Lanier and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Lanier had a good life going: a great family, a successful pathologist, a sometimes singer. Then he went to the dogs, ran the Iditarod in 1979, and has never recovered. With that ‘79 race as the book’s backbone, Jim tells its tale—entertaining, exciting, occasionally informative, and mostly the truth. From the bustle of metropolitan Anchorage to Front Street in Nome, it’s no how to do. If anything, it’s a how not to—how not to prepare, how not to train, how not to run. On the other hand, it’s how not to give in to the urge to quit when the going gets tough, in life and in this metaphorical Iditarod.

Sled Dogs Run

Author : Jonathan London
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802789579
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Sled Dogs Run written by Jonathan London and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl trains her husky puppies until her first solo run as a musher.

Mushing

Author : Thomas Gut
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781549774737
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Mushing written by Thomas Gut and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was published many years ago in Germany. With more than 10000 sold copies it was unexpected succesful. Now for the first time in English. Fully coloured, with lots of illustrations and up to date. It is not only the novice musher, who wants to learn more, it is the sleddog tourist as well, who wants to know more about this complex sport with its canine athletes.Whirling snow between gliding runners, powered forward by a relentless urge. Panting they lope along the sinuous trail, the deeply snow-covered scenery passes by. A feeling like flying, ecstasy - the fascination of the sleddog sport!The sleddogsport is not always percieved this way, but it holds a geat fascination: the unity of human and animal. Anyone, who has ever experienced this feeling, will never forget it. You may say this sport is not for you, because I live in the wrong region of the world. But it is not only Alaska, Greenland and Siberia where you can practice this sport. You can do it everywhere in the world. If you can not find snow, then take the cart. It does not matter riding on snow or mud, the fascination remains, being on the road with the team of human and dog.In many places it is certainly not easy to keep more than one dog, but often there is another musher close by. You need nothing except the love for animals to start practicing this sport.This booklet cannot cover all aspects of this sport, as it is much too complex. Instead I want to give an overview of sleddog breeding, the techniques of working with an enthusiastic sleddogteam and how to take care of these fascinating animals.It is not the intention of this book to show you how to make a sleddog out of any dog. It is remarkable, that 99% of all sleddogbreedings run and pull without ever having done it before.But every Musher (french: march�r - to run) should know more about this sport than just standing on the runners. You should know how to steer a sled, how to feed the dogs, how to take care of their health and how to solve problems on the trail. This book will begin to teach you the basics, I hope.

Mushing in Alaska

Author : Kitty Higgins
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
ISBN 13 : 1410842282
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Mushing in Alaska written by Kitty Higgins and published by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perform this script about a family who moves from Maine to Alaska to fulfill its dream of participating in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

Murder on the Iditarod Trail

Author : Sue Henry
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802191657
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Murder on the Iditarod Trail written by Sue Henry and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Adrenaline-pumping . . . [A] polished action mystery . . . [with] dazzling Arctic sights.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review Winner of the Macavity Award and the Anthony Award Murder on the Iditarod Trail is a gripping mystery set during Alaska’s world-famous Iditarod: a grueling eleven-hundred-mile dogsled race across hazardous Arctic terrain. It is an arduous sport, but not a deadly one. But suddenly the top Iditarod contestants are dying in bizarre ways: first a veteran musher smashes into a tree, then competitors begin turning up dead, with each murder more brutal than the last. State trooper Alex Jensen begins a homicide investigation, determined to track down the killer before more blood stains the pristine Alaskan snow. Meanwhile, Jessie Arnold, Alaska’s premier female musher, has a shot at winning for the first time. But as her position in the race improves, so do her chances of being the killer’s next target. As the mushers thread their way through the treacherous trails, Jessie and Jensen are drawn deep into the frozen heart of the perilous wild: where nature can kill as easily as a bullet and only the Arctic night can hear your final screams. “Engrossing . . . The howling winds, the snow, the ice, the dancing away from wolves, the crazing fatigue, the welcome heat and food, are almost palpable.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “Excellent . . . well-paced, well-conceived, engrossing . . . moves along like a healthy, well-trained dog team.” —The Anchorage Times “A book that will give you a feel for how the Iditarod is . . . Sue Henry has a genius for characterization, plot, and setting.” —Mystery News

Winterdance

Author : Gary Paulsen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156001458
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (14 download)

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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.

Dog Man

Author : Martin Buser
Publisher : Booktango
ISBN 13 : 1468958976
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book Dog Man written by Martin Buser and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it take to become an Iditarod champion? Join mushing legend Martin Buser as he reveals his life's journey in candid and action-packed detail. Buser's story of self-discovery takes the reader with him on the adventures, misadventures, and lessons learned from his devoted relationship with canine friends. This riveting narrative shows what it means to be a real "dog man," but it also serves as a stirring tribute to the spirit of the Alaskan Husky.

Hall Young of Alaska, "The Mushing Parson"

Author : Samuel Hall Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Hall Young of Alaska, "The Mushing Parson" written by Samuel Hall Young and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiographical tales of an American missionary, naturalist, and explorer in the territory of Alaska.

Icons of the Iditarod

Author : Tricia Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996843119
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Icons of the Iditarod written by Tricia Brown and published by . This book was released on 2017-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photography book of Iconic people, places, events, dogs, memorabilia, food and gear that have been endeared to Alaska¿s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

Skijor with Your Dog

Author : Mari Høe-Raitto
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602231877
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Skijor with Your Dog written by Mari Høe-Raitto and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skijoring, or being pulled on skis by a dog in harness, is a great sport in which almost everyone—and almost any breed of dog—can participate. It requires little beyond a pair of skis and a dog with a desire to pull. The second edition of this popular and practical guide to the sport covers what equipment is needed, how to teach a dog to pull, and how to work with your dog year-round. Although it is geared toward beginners, Skijor with Your Dog offers plenty of useful information for experienced skijorers as well, including racing tips, how to involve children, how to camp and travel with dogs, and how to train for competition. The book also covers canicross, bikejoring, and other ways to work with dogs when there’s no snow.With this book in hand, readers will have all the information they need to begin enjoying the outdoors with their dogs in a whole new way.