by Gary Paulsen
The subtitle is “the fine madness of running the Iditarod” and “madness” doesn’t begin to cover it. For those who don’t know, the Iditarod is a dog sled race in Alaska from Anchorage to Nome covering 1,180 miles of Alaskan wilderness in weather that can hit 60 below--Fahrenheit. That doesn’t begin t...
1995 February 1***2013 March 27Nearly two decades later, I'm reading it again, along side Natasha who is reading it for class. They were all assigned mushers to follow during the Iditarod, as part of the project.So now my beloved MIL, the Spouse, me, and my fifth grader have all read it. None of us ...
Several things I learned from this book:1. People who run the Iditarod are insane2. Gary Paulsen is insane, but he is not a quitter3. Gary Paulsen's wife must love him very, very muchI laughed out loud many times while reading this. (The funniest bit for me was the 6 skunk run, I think.) But Paulsen...
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