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

De (autor): Gay Salisbury

The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic - Gay Salisbury

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

De (autor): Gay Salisbury

Alaska, 1925: the diphtheria serum is 674 miles away. Without it, the people of Nome will not survive. "The Cruelist Miles" is the never-before-told tale of the dogs and men who braved blizzard conditions to save Nome, Alaska, from diphtheria. 34 illustrations.

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.

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Alaska, 1925: the diphtheria serum is 674 miles away. Without it, the people of Nome will not survive. "The Cruelist Miles" is the never-before-told tale of the dogs and men who braved blizzard conditions to save Nome, Alaska, from diphtheria. 34 illustrations.

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.

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