Great Dane (Kennel Club Dog Breed Series) Book

I've been a fan of dog sledding since I was a child--watching the animateed movie Balto over and over and over again. But I kind of forgot about it until I started seeing Blair Braverman's tweets about her team and her every day life and followed her and the other mushers' progress last year (2019). Prompted by her tweets about prepping the drop bags, I got excited for this year's but I was also curious about the history of the logistics of racing in the Iditarod. To the library! I unearthed this book using my library's online catalog. This book answered all of the questions I didn't even know to ask!

Combined with real stories about encounters with moose or delightful events like the "outhouse bombing" where pilots and their assistants attempt to hit an outhouse with a sack of flour, this book is full of heart and knowledge. It's astounding the work that goes into the race every year and the love people have for it. This book goes through clothing, tools, description of the trail, and even hallucinations the mushers experience.

Some information, of course, is dated. Like the fact that mushers no longer employ 16 dogs and we can easily check progress on the Iditarod website rather than calling any hotlines, but the bones of it probably hasn't changed. Do you want to know the number of booties the dogs will go though, roughly? 70,000. Want to know more? Pick up /interlibrary loan this amazing book from your library.