Lure of the Quest: One Man's Story of the 1025-mile Dog-sled Race Across North America's Frozen Wastes
Publishing Details
Lure of the Quest: One Man's Story of the 1025-mile Dog-sled Race Across North America's Frozen Wastes
By (Author) John Balzar
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
22nd February 2000
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Sporting events and management
Winter sports
917.980451
Physical Properties
288
Width 234mm, Height 154mm
487g
Description
Every year, equipped with specialist equipment and a team of huskies, an intrepid group of highly-skilled competitors penetrates a porcelain world, white and hard. It is winter in the sub-arctic, a season of extreme cold, storms and 17-hour nights, where the aurora borealis flame green and pink overhead, the snow underfoot is so crystalline that it chafes like sandpaper and where every incoming breath is so cold it burns like breathing in fire. This is the Yukon Territory, the start of the annual Yukon Quest, a 1025-mile long dog-sled race which ends in the the heart of Alaska.
Award-winning journalist John Balzar decides that he too must take part in this incredible, epic event. Beautifully written and packed with high-octane adventures, this is his astonishing story ....Author Bio
John Balzar is a roving correspondent for the LOS ANGELES TIMES and was awarded the Scripps Howard Foundation prize for human interest writing. Balzar has worked as a river boatman in Alaska's Brooks Range Mountains and sailed across the Pacific.
