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Iditarod Books
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Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,925 ratings — published 1994
Race Across Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.13 — 909 ratings — published 1987
Woodsong (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,117 ratings — published 1990
Four Thousand Paws: Caring for the Dogs of the Iditarod: A Veterinarian's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.35 — 674 ratings — published
Fast into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.10 — 676 ratings — published 2016
Akiak: A Tale From the Iditarod (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.18 — 380 ratings — published 1997
Iditarod Dreams: A Year in the Life of Alaskan Sled Dog Racer Deedee Jonrowe (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.76 — 70 ratings — published 1995
This Much Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,814 ratings — published 2019
Bravest Dog Ever: Story of Balto (Library Binding)
by (shelved 4 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,108 ratings — published 1989
Beyond Ophir: Confessions of an Iditarod Musher, An Alaska Odyssey (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.78 — 37 ratings — published 2013
Adventures of the Iditarod Air Force: True Stories About the Pilots Who Fly for Alaska's Famous Sled Dog Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.53 — 19 ratings — published 1997
Storm Run: The Story of the First Woman to Win the Iditarod Sled Dog Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.17 — 106 ratings — published 2003
Father of the Iditarod: The Joe Redington Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.85 — 40 ratings — published 1996
Susan Butcher and the Iditarod Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.17 — 47 ratings — published 1992
The Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.22 — 154 ratings — published 2002
Epic Solitude: A Story of Survival and a Quest for Meaning in the Far North (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.86 — 543 ratings — published 2020
Dog Man: Chronicles of an Iditarod Champion (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.47 — 116 ratings — published 2015
Painter and Ugly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.72 — 160 ratings — published 2011
Cold Hands, Warm Heart: Alaskan Adventures of an Iditarod Champion (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.27 — 337 ratings — published 2008
Stone Fox (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,172 ratings — published 1980
Iditarod Dream: Dusty and His Sled Dogs Compete in Alaska's Jr. Iditarod (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.07 — 42 ratings — published 1996
The Last Great Race: The Iditarod (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.08 — 24 ratings — published 1982
On Thin Ice (T-FLAC, #6; Wright Family, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,350 ratings — published 2004
Iditarod Fact Book: A Complete Guide to the Last Great Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.73 — 11 ratings — published 2001
Running With Champions: A Midlife Journey on the Iditarod Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.22 — 141 ratings — published 2006
Kiana's Iditarod (Last Wilderness Adventure)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.83 — 64 ratings — published 1984
Back of the Pack: An Iditarod Rookie Musher's Alaska Pilgrimage to Nome (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.11 — 38 ratings — published 1996
One Second to Glory: The Alaska Adventures of Iditarod Champion Dick Mackey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.63 — 27 ratings — published 2001
The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,773 ratings — published 2003
Mush! Sled Dogs of the Iditarod (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.68 — 41 ratings — published 2013
Mush! Across Alaska in the World's Longest Sled-Dog Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.59 — 29 ratings — published 1992
The First Great Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.00 — 40 ratings — published 2013
Iditarod Adventures: Tales from Mushers Along the Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.54 — 24 ratings — published 2015
Iditarod Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.30 — 104 ratings — published 2013
The Lance Mackey Story 1st edition by Lance Mackey (2010) Paperback
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.31 — 99 ratings — published 2010
A Tale of Two Iditarods (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.07 — 14 ratings — published 2008
Alone Across the Arctic: One Woman's Epic Journey by Dog Team (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.13 — 188 ratings — published 2001
Black Star, Bright Dawn (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,572 ratings — published 1988
Running North: A Yukon Adventure (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.09 — 211 ratings — published 1998
Murder on the Iditarod Trail (Alex Jensen / Jessie Arnold, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,667 ratings — published 1991
My Lead Dog Was a Lesbian: Mushing Across Alaska in the Iditarod--the World's Most Grueling Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.75 — 237 ratings — published 1996
Iditarod: The Great Race to Nome (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 4.27 — 41 ratings — published 1991
More Iditarod Classics: Tales of the Trail Told by the Men & Women Who Race Across Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iditarod)
avg rating 3.78 — 18 ratings — published 2004
Togo Takes the Lead: Heroic Sled Dog of the Alaska Serum Run (Heroic Animals)
by (shelved 1 time as iditarod)
avg rating 3.91 — 11 ratings — published
Real Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as iditarod)
avg rating 3.95 — 95,601 ratings — published 2024
Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse" (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as iditarod)
avg rating 4.03 — 438 ratings — published 2024
Marker to Marker: A Woman's Journey of Purpose and Perseverance Amidst Adversity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as iditarod)
avg rating 4.49 — 63 ratings — published
“The snow machine drivers, dressed in layers of outer. wear to repel the worst the Arctic can deliver, may cover the full thousand miles without a good night’s sleep and with few hot meals. A bed becomes something they dreamed of once; a hot shower, only a memory. They develop shoulders the envy of linebackers. But when they try to explain the pale, empty nights on the ice of Norton Sound, or the northern lights so bright they reflect off the snow in the Farewell Burn, wistful looks come over their wind and sunburned faces and they drift into silence or stammering attempts at description. Many come back year after year, addicted to the trail.”
― Murder on the Iditarod Trail
― Murder on the Iditarod Trail
“While genetics play a significant role, so too, does experience, for running (and especially running long distances) has a high metabolic cost. The dogs’ muscles must be strong, but most of all, they must be efficient. The ability to run fast and consistently for long periods of time depends on the body’s ability to provide adequate energy to working muscles and to efficiently remove waste products such as carbon dioxide and lactic acid. In both humans and dogs, only about a quarter of the energy from the breakdown of fats and carbohydrates in food is converted into mechanical energy; the rest is dissipated as heat. The primary focus of training for a race—for both humans and canines—is teaching the body to get better at converting available energy from glucose, carbohydrates, fats, and proteins into energy. This can only really be achieved through regular exercise”
― Four Thousand Paws: Caring for the Dogs of the Iditarod: A Veterinarian's Story
― Four Thousand Paws: Caring for the Dogs of the Iditarod: A Veterinarian's Story
