Download or read book George Attla written by Lew Freedman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the life and career of George Attla, Alaskan sprint sled-dog musher.
Download or read book Spirit of the Wind written by Lew Freedman and published by Epicenter Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, George Attla dominated the sport of sprint mushing. This is the biography of an extraordinary man and his dogs whose uncommon strength, agility, speed, and endurance are the stuff of champions.
Download or read book Racing Alaskan Sled Dogs written by Bill Vaudrin and published by . This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes history, training of the dogs, famous dogs, building sleds.
Download or read book The Essential Sheehan written by George Sheehan and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Runners and readers whose connections to the sport date back to the 1970s surely remember Dr. George Sheehan, the New Jersey cardiologist and writer whose unique approach to the joy of exercise helped spark America's fitness boom. As a columnist for his local Red Bank Register and later as the medical editor of Runner's World and through eight bestselling books, Sheehan became, through the influence of his example and writing, the spokesperson for an entire generation of runners and the manifold benefits they discovered through the running lifestyle. Sadly, several of Sheehan's books are now out of print, and the hundreds of newspaper magazine columns he penned over the last 25 years of his life have been lost to time. Until now. The Essential Sheehan is a collection of the best running pieces George Sheehan wrote in his lifetime, many of which ran in Runner's World when Sheehan was a columnist there. This collection illuminates Sheehan's lasting influence on running culture and is a reintroduction of George Sheehan to a new generation of runners and readers.
Download or read book The book of the bee written by Solomon (bp. of Basra) and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bad Friday written by Lew Freedman and published by Epicenter Press (WA). This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In [the book], survivors share their personal stories of the 1964 Good Friday earthquake"--
Download or read book Moments Rightly Placed written by Ray Hudson and published by Epicenter Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hudson recounts his arrival in Alaska's windswept Aleutian Islands, his explorations of the islands' past and present, and his deepening relationship with a village and its people.
Download or read book Alaskan Travels written by Edward Hoagland and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America s most intelligent and wide-rangingessayist-naturalist. Philip...
Download or read book Iditarod written by Tricia Brown and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For sled dogracing fans worldwide, the most important calendar day is the first Saturday in March, when teams convene for the start of mushings Superbowlthe Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Every year, as it has since 1973, this ultimate challenge begins in the states most populated city, Anchorage, and then dives into the Alaska Bush on a historic trail that wends over mountain ranges, along frozen rivers, and onto the Bering Sea ice. The finish line lies 1,000-plus miles away in Nome, beneath a giant, burled archway. There, dogs and their drivers are greeted by masses of locals, vacationing fans, officials, media, and other mushers who intimately know what that team has just endured. To simply finish is the goal for entrants; to win is the accomplishment of a rare few. Indeed, more people have climbed Mount Everest than have finished the Iditarod.
Download or read book The Crooked Stovepipe written by Craig Mishler and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named for a popular local fiddle tune, The Crooked Stovepipe is a rollicking, detailed, first-ever study of the indigenous fiddle music and social dancing enjoyed by the Gwich'in Athapaskan Indians and other tribal groups in northeast Alaska, the Yukon, and the northwest territories. Though the music has obvious roots in the British Isles, French Canada, and the American South, the Gwich'in have used it in shaping their own aesthetic, which is apparent in their choice of fiddle tunings, bowing techniques, foot clogging, and a distinctively stratified tune repertoire. Craig Mishler treats this rural subarctic artistic tradition as a distinctive regional style akin to Cajun, bluegrass, or string-band music. He uses convergence theory as the framework for showing how this aesthetic came about. His skillful use of personal anecdotes, interviews, music examples, dance diagrams, and photographs will appeal to general readers interested in folk music and dance, as well as to specialists.
Download or read book Racing Toward Recovery written by Mike Williams Sr. and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, Alaska musher and tribal leader Mike Williams shares his remarkable life story with veteran sports writer Lew Freedman. Williams is a man of many parts, a sports figure, a government figure, a leader of his people, a husband, a father, and a Native man with one foot firmly planted in the twenty-first century and another firmly planted in the roots of a culture that dates back 10,000 years in Alaska. Williams competed in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race fifteen times, and was once the only Yup’ik Eskimo musher, a symbol to all Natives around the state. Although he was never a top contender for the Iditarod title, he was a competitor whom everyone cheered because he resolved that to shed light on one of Alaska’s greatest threats to the health and future of its Native people, he would carry in his dog sled pages—pounds worth—of signatures of people who had pledged sobriety. A Yup’ik Eskimo, Williams saw firsthand how alcohol could devastate people as surely as if they had contracted a deadly flu: each of his brothers had succumbed to alcohol-related accidents, incidents, or illnesses. Williams describes how he recovered from his dependence on alcohol through religion, loved ones, and racing dogs. For many years Williams carried those sobriety pledges in his sled, focusing attention on a troubling, seemingly intractable problem. Williams gained national attention, being profiled by CNN, Sports Illustrated, and Good Morning America. Fellow Iditarod competitors have voted him “the most inspirational musher.”
Download or read book Dogs of the North written by Alaska Geographic Society and published by Alaska Northwest Books. This book was released on 1987-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Aunt Phil s Trunk written by Laurel, Bill and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2016-07-09 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Five features dozens of short stories and hundreds of historical photographs that share the history of Alaska from 1960 to 1984. This fifth book in the Alaska history series highlights the first 25 years of statehood when the optimistic citizens of the Great Land created a government from scratch in just a few years and dealt with many challenges. Aunt Phil s Trunk Volume Five shares firsthand accounts of survivors who experienced the 1964 Good Friday earthquake and the devastating tsunamis that followed that 9.2 temblor. It also features stories about the discovery of black gold on the North Slope in the late 1960s, and how Alaska s Native people fought for their land and won the largest settlement ever granted Native Americans. That agreement cleared the way for oil companies to build an 800-mile pipeline through some of the most rugged and remote country in the world during the 1970s.
Download or read book The Domestic Dog written by James Serpell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second edition of a classic text on canine science and behavior, incorporating two decades of new evidence and discoveries.
Download or read book Born to Pull written by Bob Cary and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the origins of dogsledding and the different types of sled dogs, and discusses living conditions for sled dogs, canine communication, selecting and training a team, and dogsled racing.
Download or read book written by Nancy Gates and published by Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With facts and figures on geography, history, economy, cultures, and peoples of the Last Frontier, the 29th edition is packed with all-about-Alaska information for people who dream of visiting Alaska, as well as long-lasting sourdoughs.
