Woodsong is a book of memoirs by Gary Paulsen. It mostly tells of Paulsen and stories of his dog teams. The last part of the book tells about his race in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, a 1,153 mile dog sled race from Anchorage, Alaska to Nome, Alaska.
Paulsen describes his life from when he first got a team of sled dogs. He thought he knew a lot about the woods but then realized how ignorant he was and started to find how it really was. After ...
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Woodsong is a book of memoirs by Gary Paulsen. It mostly tells of Paulsen and stories of his dog teams. The last part of the book tells about his race in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, a 1,153 mile dog sled race from Anchorage, Alaska to Nome, Alaska.
Paulsen describes his life from when he first got a team of sled dogs. He thought he knew a lot about the woods but then realized how ignorant he was and started to find how it really was. After always training with the sled race dogs, he enter his one team of 15 dogs into the Iditarod, an approximately 1,153 mile long sled dog race from Anchorage, Alaska to Nome, Alaska. It takes him 16 1/2 days to complete the race and he is always tired and suffers from hallucinations and finishes in almost last, but it doesn't matter to him. Most of the book, however, is about the times when he was running his sled dog team. There were times when he got violently ill on a sled run and makes it back and times when he gets hurt badly on the a run...
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