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The cruelest miles : the heroic story of dogs and men in a race against an epidemic / Gay Salisbury & Laney Salisbury.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salisbury, Gay.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diphtheria--Alaska--Nome.
- Diphtheria.
- Sled dogs.
- Alaska--Nome.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2003]
- Summary:
- Alaska, 1925: the diphtheria serum is 674 miles away. Without it, the people of Nome will not survive. The never-before-told tale of the dogs and men who braved blizzard conditions to save Nome, Alaska from diphtheria. 34 illustrations.
- Contents:
- Gold, men, and dogs
- Outbreak
- Quarantine
- Gone to the dogs
- Flying machines
- Hunters of the North
- The "Rule of the 40's"
- Along the Yukon River
- Red tape
- The ice factory
- Cold glory
- Saved.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-303).
- ISBN:
- 0393019624
- OCLC:
- 51304068
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