Full name: The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic

Authors: Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Animals, Adventure Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393325706 0393325709

When a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away, the port was icebound, and planes couldn't fly in blizzard conditions--only the dogs could make it. The heroic dash of dog teams across the Alaskan wilderness to Nome inspired the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and immortalized Balto, the lead dog of the last team whose bronze statue still stands in New York City's Central Park. This is the greatest dog story, never fully told until now. Similar books: Winterdance by Gary Paulsen Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder The Great Serum Race by Debbie S. Miller The Tiger by John Vaillant Pirate Hunters by Robert Kurson The Lost Men by Kelly Tyler-Lewis The Arctic Grail by Pierre Berton The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag by Jim Corbett Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong Three Among the Wolves by Helen Thayer Deadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson Ninety Degrees North by Fergus Fleming Leviathan by Eric Jay Dolin Coming Back Alive by Spike Walker Deep Descent by Kevin F. McMurray Denali's Howl by Andy Hall Shattered Air by Bob Madgic Revenge of the Whale by Nathaniel Philbrick Caliban's Shore by Stephen Taylor Yukon Alone by John Balzar