Racing the White Silence: On the Trail of the Yukon Quest
by Adam Killick
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Unlike the Iditarod, the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race isn't for moneyed adventurers with a fanciful interest in mushing. The race, billed as the toughest in the world, crosses 1,000 miles of forbidding land between Whitehorse and Fairbanks, Alaska, and pits man, woman, and dog against the nastiest that nature has to offer. In Racing the White Silence, Canadian journalist Adam Killick follows the racers and their dogs for two weeks, taking us not only into the heartland of the show more Yukon and Alaska, but into the minds of the extraordinary people who dare to race. show lessTags
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I love dogsledding books! No other activity with dogs has such an element of danger, unpredictability, and sense of overcoming obstacles.
This is a great book. One aspect that makes it great is the level of details that I have not read in other books on dogsledding. There even is a bit on outhouses. Love the details, but on another note, they don’t help keep a sustained excitement as the author cuts from the details of the racers in that leg, to the details of the city/checkpoint they are going through. For this reason, Winterdance is still my favorite dogsledding book, but I would definitely say this is a must-read for dogsledding books.
I collect quotes and excerpts from books that have some interesting prose or fact, and the way I do show more it is put a post-it notes where I want to go back and re-read and copy into my list of favorite quotes. I have 10 post-it notes for Racing the White Silence, where as I usually have 2 if I am lucky in most books. A quote has to stand on its own outside of the context of the book.
It is a book I will want to read again in the future. show less
This is a great book. One aspect that makes it great is the level of details that I have not read in other books on dogsledding. There even is a bit on outhouses. Love the details, but on another note, they don’t help keep a sustained excitement as the author cuts from the details of the racers in that leg, to the details of the city/checkpoint they are going through. For this reason, Winterdance is still my favorite dogsledding book, but I would definitely say this is a must-read for dogsledding books.
I collect quotes and excerpts from books that have some interesting prose or fact, and the way I do show more it is put a post-it notes where I want to go back and re-read and copy into my list of favorite quotes. I have 10 post-it notes for Racing the White Silence, where as I usually have 2 if I am lucky in most books. A quote has to stand on its own outside of the context of the book.
It is a book I will want to read again in the future. show less
I love dogsledding books! No other activity with dogs has such an element of danger, unpredictability, and sense of overcoming obstacles.
This is a great book. One aspect that makes it great is the level of details that I have not read in other books on dogsledding. There even is a bit on outhouses. Love the details, but on another note, they don’t help keep a sustained excitement as the author cuts from the details of the racers in that leg, to the details of the city/checkpoint they are going through. For this reason, Winterdance is still my favorite dogsledding book, but I would definitely say this is a must-read for dogsledding books.
I collect quotes and excerpts from books that have some interesting prose or fact, and the way I do show more it is put a post-it notes where I want to go back and re-read and copy into my list of favorite quotes. I have 10 post-it notes for Racing the White Silence, where as I usually have 2 if I am lucky in most books. A quote has to stand on its own outside of the context of the book.
It is a book I will want to read again in the future. show less
This is a great book. One aspect that makes it great is the level of details that I have not read in other books on dogsledding. There even is a bit on outhouses. Love the details, but on another note, they don’t help keep a sustained excitement as the author cuts from the details of the racers in that leg, to the details of the city/checkpoint they are going through. For this reason, Winterdance is still my favorite dogsledding book, but I would definitely say this is a must-read for dogsledding books.
I collect quotes and excerpts from books that have some interesting prose or fact, and the way I do show more it is put a post-it notes where I want to go back and re-read and copy into my list of favorite quotes. I have 10 post-it notes for Racing the White Silence, where as I usually have 2 if I am lucky in most books. A quote has to stand on its own outside of the context of the book.
It is a book I will want to read again in the future. show less
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