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This much country : a memoir
\"In 2009, after a crippling divorce that left her heartbroken and directionless, Kristin decided to accept an offer to live at a friend's cabin outside of Denali National Park in Alaska for a few months. In exchange for housing, she would take care of her friend's eight sled dogs. That winter, she learned that she was tougher than she ever knew. She learned how to survive in one of the most remote places on Earth and she learned she was strong enough to be alone. She fell in love twice: first with running sled dogs, and then with Andy, a gentle man who had himself moved to Alaska to heal a broken heart. Kristin and Andy married and started a sled dog kennel. While this work was enormously satisfying, Kristin became determined to complete the Iditarod-- the 1,000-mile dogsled race from Anchorage, in south central Alaska, to Nome on the western Bering Sea coast\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Musher
Musher is a film about the lives of four sled dog racers (mushers) and their dogs. What it means to be a musher, and what it takes to be a sled dog, is revealed over the course of a year as they all wait out summer so they can train for the coming winter’s races. The film also explores the role of women in the sport, as dog mushing is one of just a few sports where men and women compete together.
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On Time Delivery
From the turn of the twentieth century in interior Alaska, dog team
mail carriers were charged with maintaining the trail systems and
carrying the mail until they were replaced in the late 1930s and
'40s by airplane mail service. With the advent and widespread
adoption of aviation, many of the trails were abandoned, and a
generation of rural Alaskans has now grown up with few ties to the
overland trail system that supported their grandparents and
inspired modern traditions such as the world-famous Iditarod Race.
In addition to chronicling the history of this unique postal
service, On Time Delivery pays tribute to the men who
carried the mail and the families who supported them, and considers
the changing nature of how people experience the country where they
live-and how this is affected by the systems of communication and
transportation upon which they depend.
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Iditarod dream : Dusty and his sled dogs compete in Alaska's Jr. Iditarod
Relates the story of the fifteen-year-old Alaskan boy and his dogs as they prepare for and then run the 158-mile course of the Junior Iditarod Race.
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Where the wild men are with Ben Fogle. Series 3, Episode 4, Sweden
Ben meets a 40-year-old British woman who gave up her old life as a communications manager to train huskies inside the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden. He joins Gaynor Leeper and her new husband Milos in their hand-built cabin, which has neither electricity nor running water, and also meets the couple's 40 Alaskan huskies. The trio then embark on a tough trek driving dogs through the icy wilderness, with Ben learning how to sled and to manage both himself and the animals in temperatures as low as -30C.
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