The Last Great Race: The Iditarod

by Tim Jones

Book Overview

The 1200 mile dogsled race across Alaska from Anchorage to Nome. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811722333
• ISBN13: 9780811722339
• Release Date: July 1988
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Rural Alaska - A World Apart

I am actually living for the summer in one of the towns (Elim) that is along the Iditarod race trail. In this book, Tim Jones chronicles the 1979 race which he followed by small prop plane. His book gives an excellent combination of suspenseful race details, villiage histories, and quirky biographies of the people associated with this great race. Fascinating reading for anyone on the "outside," as Alaskans call the people of the lower 48. Expose yourself to a different world and read this never dull book. I found myself racing to the finish just like the participants - on little sleep, exhausted, but exhilarated.

Working together

This was an excellant book. There is a real love between the musher and his dogs. The book had warmth, excitement and peril. It is amazing the number of people involved in this race. There is more than one story in this book. I want to read it again.