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Language
English
Description
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 that the North demanded of her. Weaving together fast-paced adventure writing, ethnographic journalism, and elegantly...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The inspirational first person story of a young dog sled racer who had to overcome incredible odds to compete: she is legally blind.
For more than eleven years, twenty-one-year-old Rachael Scdoris has been guiding teams of sled dogs across jagged mountain ranges, frozen rivers, dense forests, and desolate tundra at speeds exceeding twenty mph. Not only is Rachael the youngest athlete to ever complete a 500-mile sled dog race mile, but she is also...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Language
English
Description
The author presents an inside account of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race of 1998, detailing the day-to-day experiences of the race participants and workers as they prepared for, and embarked upon the 1,023 mile trek from Canada's Yukon Territory to Alaska's remote interior.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Describes the author's experiences as a middle-aged mom whose initial resolve to train for and complete the Iditarod failed when her dogs refused to finish the race, detailing how she overcame daunting challenges to succeed during a second attempt. --Publisher's description.
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