Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska eBook Hudson Stuck
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Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska eBook Hudson Stuck
Great book on adventures in the Arctic. If you like this book you will also want to read the following 99 cent books on Arctic adventures:1 A Winter Circuit of Our Arctic Coast: A Narrative of a Journey with Dog-sleds Around the Entire Arctic Coast of Alaska (1920)
2 Hunters of the Great North (1922) (Interactive Table of Contents)
3 An Eskimo Village (1920)
4 My Arctic Journal: A Year Among Ice-fields and Eskimos (1894)
5 A Year with a Whaler (1919)
6 By Eskimo Dog-sled and Kayak (1919)
7 Forty-two Years Amongst the Indians and Eskimo: Pictures from the Life of the Right Reverend John Horden, First Bishop of Moosonee (1893) (Active Table of Contents)
8 Journey from Great Bear Lake to Wollaston Land and Recent Explorations along the South and East Coast of Victoria Land (1852)
9 Robert Peary's Short Narrative of His "GREAT WHITE JOURNEY" across Greenland (1894)
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Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska eBook Hudson Stuck Reviews
This book gives a wonderful glimpse into a lifestyle that I never will have an opportunity to experience. I don't mind missing out on temperatures that are 40 or 50 below zero, but I love reading about it. I enjoy seeing the mountains of Alaska through the author's eyes, and traveling by my imagination on the frozen rivers with incredible names like Koyukuk and Kuskokwim. I've even studied a map of Alaska! Highly recommended for adventurers who can't always leave home.
The author was one of the original climbers of Denali and played a huge role in Alaskan history, yet is relatively unknown. I was amazed at the adventures and travel advice given in this book that applies to Alaska even today. The old school mushing advice and winter travel planning is incredible. It tells the story of Alaska a decade or more after the gold rush, which tends to be the well documented time of Alaskan history. The adventures of those who stayed on afterwards are just as interesting, if not more. Hudson Stuck does a great job of telling these stories and his predictions on the fate of Alaskan natives are chillingly accurate. Great read for Alaskan lovers!
The first thing I noticed was the odd abbreviation for Alaska in the title on the book cover. Ala used to be the three letter abbreviation for Alabama, not Alaska. The cover art actually looks okay but didn't represent travels by dog sled in the interior of Alaska in approximately 1905. Then I opened the book. Of course it's a reprint but this POS is printed in a small font better suited for instructions on some inexpensive toy from Walgreens. This might be a great story but I'll have to find another edition to read.
A missionary recounts his travels in remote Alaska at a time when there were no roads. He shows the hospitality and friendliness people extended to each other. His description of the country are beautiful.
Really enjoyed the book, would have liked it better if there had been maps of the trails covered, as not being an Alaskan there were only a few places mentioned that I could picture in my minds eye. Again with a book written some 100 years ago there were words that I needed to look up.,(thank goodness I have the Fire).
Whilst reading I was transposed onto the trails with them, bearing in mind the clothing that was available then I wonder how they survived in the temperatures that the writer quotes. What surprised me was the seeming lack of wildlife that they came upon.
Would recommend this book who likes adventure non fiction.
I love dogs so naturally this book would attract my attention. And it is about Alaska, a subject that gets my attention. The book was written by a minister who traveled to various missions in the early 1900's. The suspense of his journeys and how they managed the dogs through the snow and ice kept my attention. I also liked his description of Mt. McKinley and other scenery as he traveled across the rivers and terrain. Another interesting and historical book.
First, I must admit my bias, based on personal experience. I have traveled by snowshoe, crossed the Sierras in the winter, camped in the snow, gold mined in Northern California, and worked outside in Montana in 20 to 40 below weather. As a result, this book resonates with me, and the grit shown by Alaskan "mushers" astounds me.
The author was a cleric (although this is not a religious book by any means) who covered his "parish" in the winter by dogsled. The actual travels are interesting, but they are a thread upon which the author strings nuggets about early 20th Century life in remote areas of Alaska.
He tells of the care, feeding and selection of sled dogs, of course. But he also tells how miners thawed the soil to a depth at which they wished to secure gold, and how they froze tunnels through the water to mine the ocean floor. He tells of interesting personalities, the types of people who flocked to Alaska, the characteristics of the natives, the quality of Alaskan potatoes, the types of snow and ice conditions, and a thousand other interesting details.
By the time you are finished, you will know what temperatures are best for winter travel, the difficulties of sharing the wilderness trails with horses, all about illicit liquor traders, the curse of cotton clothing, how to stick rabbit fur on your nose to prevent frostbite to your probiscus, and a lot more than you ever considered about early Alaskan life.
I can't imagine anyone who would not enjoy this book. But if you are an outdoorsman (or woman!) or just like true adventure stories, this is likely to be one of your favorites as well.
Great book on adventures in the Arctic. If you like this book you will also want to read the following 99 cent books on Arctic adventures
1 A Winter Circuit of Our Arctic Coast A Narrative of a Journey with Dog-sleds Around the Entire Arctic Coast of Alaska (1920)
2 Hunters of the Great North (1922) (Interactive Table of Contents)
3 An Eskimo Village (1920)
4 My Arctic Journal A Year Among Ice-fields and Eskimos (1894)
5 A Year with a Whaler (1919)
6 By Eskimo Dog-sled and Kayak (1919)
7 Forty-two Years Amongst the Indians and Eskimo Pictures from the Life of the Right Reverend John Horden, First Bishop of Moosonee (1893) (Active Table of Contents)
8 Journey from Great Bear Lake to Wollaston Land and Recent Explorations along the South and East Coast of Victoria Land (1852)
9 Robert Peary's Short Narrative of His "GREAT WHITE JOURNEY" across Greenland (1894)
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