Running with Champions: A Midlife Journey on the Iditarod Trail - Softcover

Frederic, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0882406167 ISBN 13: 9780882406169

Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books, 2006

Synopsis

ASIN: 0882406167 Product Name: Running with Champions: A Midlife Journey on the Iditarod Trail Product ID: 000882406167 Product ID Type: upc

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Review:

I thoroughly enjoyed this vivid account of a spirited individual with a zest for life who managed to go from curious observer of the Iditarod to?crossing under the burled arch in Nome herself in just a few short years. I have a hunch some unsuspecting reader of this book will one day make such a life journey of his or her own.

About the Author:

Lisa Frederic has been blessed living the Alaskan dream. After coming north for summer employment, she spent the next two decades fishing for wild salmon off the coast of Kodiak Island. She and her husband built a home in an isolated bay, eight hours by boat from the closest town. They make their own electricity and get mail once a week by seaplane. There are more bears than people in their neighborhood. A vacation in 1997 turned Lisa's life upside down when she visited Nome to see the end of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race. Five years later she was shocked to find herself committed to driving a dog team across the state. In 2002 she completed the 1,049-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race as a rookie at forty-two years old. These days she writes and gives tours inside Denali National Park, trains sled dogs for Jeff King, and commutes to the ocean waters around Kodiak to fish commercially. Lisa is making plans for her next midlife Adventure.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0882406167
• ISBN 13: 9780882406169
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224