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"In January 1925, many people in Nome, Alaska, and the surrounding area were sick and dying from an outbreak of diphtheria. A supply of medicine was found but there was one problem--it was hundreds of miles away. The only way to get it to Nome was by dogsled. Ride along with the heroic sled dog Togo and his owner, Leonhard Sepalla, as they make a dangerous journey across Alaska's unforgiving wilderness to deliver lifesaving medicine to the people of Nome"--Provided by publisher.

Relates the story of a fifteen-year-old Alaskan boy and his dogs as they prepare for and then run the 158-mile course of the Junior Iditarod Race.

The story of the heroic role played by sled dogs, including the Siberian husky Togo, in the delivery of antitoxin serum to those stricken with diphtheria in 1925 Nome. Includes historical notes about the event as well as about the Iditarod Sled Dog Race which commemorates it.

The author tells the story of how she became the first woman to win the 1,100 mile Iditarod Sled Dog Race in 1985.

When Blair Braverman was eighteen, she moved to artic Norway to learn to drive sled dogs, but found work as a tour guide in a glacier in Alaska, determined to carve out life as a "tough girl" on the brink of adulthood.

Describes the annual dog sled race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, and the life of the woman who was the first person to win it for three consecutive years.

Follows the story of Debbie Clarke Moderow, who at the age of forty-seven entered the Iditarod for the first time and, less than 200 miles from the finish line, found that her beloved huskies no longer wanted to run. Desperate to figure out how she had lost touch with her dogs, Moderow spent the next two years training and reconnecting, and finally, after much hardship, human and canines finished the race.

Part adventure, part love story, and part inquiry into the mystery of the connection between humans and dogs, this book is a memoir of a woman, her dogs, and what can happen in the place between daring and doubt. Debbie Clarke Moderow ran the Alaskan Iditarod with her sled dogs in 2003 and 2005.

Rachael Scdoris recounts her experiences running the Iditarod Race as the only legally blind competitor, and reflects on how she has faced the challenges of blindness and excelled when no one else believed in her.