Winterdance

By Gary Paulsen,

Book cover of Winterdance: the Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod

Book description

An incredible, breathtaking true adventure of Alaskan dog-racing and of the mesmerising Arctic landscape

Gary Paulsen was in his forties, an internationally famous children's writer. Then he was overtaken by his passion, a passion for Alaskan dog-racing and a passion for the wild, beautiful landscape of the Arctic. WINTERDANCE is…

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1 author picked Winterdance as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love a story that tells it straight, right from when the person was a know-nothing beginner and was trying and failing, and trying and failing…and oh, the failures that Paulsen somehow survived! The drive and obsession that kept him going all the way to the big one, the Iditarod, shows me the beauty of what an individual can do, even all alone, unwitnessed and unhelped, in the middle of the freezing winter night, with a pack of dogs that doesn’t even care about him a little bit yet.

In reading this book, I feel I have witnessed how a…

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