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

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

Laney Salisbury, Gay Salisbury

303 pages hardcover 2003

6 editions

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In 1925, a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through icebound Nome, Alaska. The life-saving serum was a thousand miles away, and a blizzard was brewing. Airplanes could not fly in such conditions: only the dogs could do it. Racing against death, tw...

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