Download or read book Racing the White Silence written by Adam Killick and published by Penguin Global. This book was released on 2005-05-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike the Iditarod, the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race isn't for moneyed adventurers with a fanciful interest in mushing. The race, billed as the toughest in the world, crosses 1,000 miles of forbidding land between Whitehorse and Fairbanks, Alaska, and pits man, woman, and dog against the nastiest that nature has to offer. In "Racing the White Silence," Canadian journalist Adam Killick follows the racers and their dogs for two weeks, taking us not only into the heartland of the Yukon and Alaska, but into the minds of the extraordinary people who dare to race.