Full name: Race Across Alaska: First Woman to Win the Iditarod Tells Her Story

Author: Libby Riddles Year: 1987 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs, Adventure, Animals, Travel Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780811722537 0811722538

Libby Riddles wanted an adventure. At the age of 16 she left home for the snowy frontiers of Alaska, the Last Frontier. There her love of animals drew her to the sport of sled dog racing. When she entered the Iditarod, the famous marathon from Anchorage to Nome, she was just another Iditarod Nobody. Twelve hundred miles later, having conquered blizzards, extreme cold, and exhaustion, she and her dogs crossed the final stretch of sea ice, miles ahead of the nearest competitor... and suddenly she realised: I will be the first woman to win the Iditarod. This is the story of a courageous woman and her heroic dogs. This is the story of Libby Riddles's adventure. Similar books: Winterdance by Gary Paulsen The Final Frontiersman by James Campbell Arctic Homestead by Norma Cobb Tisha by Robert Specht Togo by Robert J. Blake How to Walk a Puma by Peter Allison Kingbird Highway by Kenn Kaufman The Eye of the Elephant by Delia Owens Three Singles to Adventure by Gerald Durrell Looking for Alaska by Peter Jenkins 438 Days by Jonathan Franklin Becoming Odyssa by Jennifer Pharr Davis An Island to Oneself by Tom Neale The Horse Boy by Rupert Isaacson Dove by Robin Lee Graham Be Brave, Be Strong by Jill Homer Walking the Nile by Levison Wood The Big Year by Mark Obmascik Travels by Michael Crichton Maiden Voyage by Tania Aebi