(Mobile library) The Cruellest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
·•●- Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury ·•●-
| #3618096 in Books | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | 2003-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.10 | File Name: 0747560617 | 320 pages |
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Compelling, Well-Written, Informative, and Very Interesting!|By Robert R. Mendenhall|Looking for books about Alaska in anticipation of our first trip there, I stumbled onto this chronicle of the 1925 serum run - the delivery of live-saving diphtheria vaccine some 674 miles by dogsled to icebound Nome. Today's Iditarod, though it runs a somewhat different route, continues as a||'Compelling and inspiring' USA Today 'Men and dogs crossing immense distances in the Arctic winter to save dying children - there could hardly be a more inspiring topic.This is a moving story, superbly researched and deftly told.' Sebastian Junger, autor of
It is 1925. The goldrush town of Nome sits two degrees below the Arctic Circle, and there are few more forbidding places on earth. When signs of diptheria broke out, Dr. Curtis Welch knew it was the biggest crisis of his life. Supplies of the serum were dangerously low and it was winter. There would be an epidemic if the medicine didn't arrive in time. Welch's urgent plea for help made national headlines and all of America watched with bated breath to see if an expediti...
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