- Taschenbuch: 304 Seiten
- Verlag: Vintage (19. März 1996)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0679764119
- ISBN-13: 978-0679764113
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13,2 x 2 x 20,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.7 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (6 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 402.313 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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The Iditarod may be the only race that awards a prize for last place. But then how many people can even complete a course that ranges across 1,000 miles of Alaska's ice fields, mountains, and canyons at temperatures that sometimes plunges to 100 degrees below zero? In conditions like these, anything can go wrong. For Brian Patrick O'Donoghue, nearly everything did.
In My Lead Dog Was a Lesbian, his reporter and intrepid novice musher tells what happened when he entered the 1991 Iditarod, along with seventeen sled dogs with names like Harley, Screech, and Rainy, his sexually confused lead dog. O'Donoghue braved snowstorms and sickening wipeouts, endured the contempt of more experienced racers (one of whom was daft enough to use poodles), and rode herd of four-legged companions who would rather be fighting or having sex. It's all here, narrated with self-deprecating wit, in a true story of heroism, cussedness and astonishing dumb luck.
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A native of Washington D.C., Brian Patrick O'Donoghue has worked as a cab driver in New York City, a cargo ship wiper, an elevator mechanic’s helper, a pipe fitter's apprentice, a science museum technician, a press photographer, and a TV and print journalist. These days he reports on the oil industry, politics, and sled-dog racing for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. O'Donoghue, 40, and his wife, Kate Ripley, live in Two Rivers, Alaska, with a howling kennel of retired Iditarod dogs.
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I was given this book as a birthday present and it was one of the best gifts ever. The trials and tribulations that these athletes (dogs and man) go through for very little glory relative to professional sports was awe-inspiring. I did get lost in the names of the other mushers and so of the dogs. So confused that I wrote the names on the inside back cover to keep things straight.
A good book to give people an overview and insight into a grueling human and dog feat.
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Last January I drove a twelve dog sled along the Iditarod Trail outside Nome. I had not gone far when I was thrown from the runners whilst overturning the sled. That one event gave me a new appreciation for anyone who can not just mush, but run and complete the Iditarod. This is one fantastic book, well written, and suspensful. Since most of us will never do the race, it is the next best thing to pick up on a cold winter's night and dream of glory or humiliation. I know how the author did in the race, but I won't reveal the ending. Take it from someone who drove the Iditarod for three feet, you will love this book with the strange name.
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On a cold winter night, to read this excellent book is about as close as most of us will ever get to doing the Iditarod Trail. I tried it with twelve dogs outside Nome last January, and I made it three feet before being thrown from the runners. That brief stint gave me a tremendous appreciation for the people who undertake the difficult journey. Brian has written a book as fast moving as the race itself. From the first page, I was entralled to see how he would finish. I know, but I won't spoil it for the reader. It's enough to say that as Brian approached Nome, I found myself pulling for him. Such is the way he can write. If one wants to know what it entails to make the one thousand mile plus journey, it can be found here. So pick up this wonderfully written and exciting book, sit back, and experience Alaska at its best.
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A story about Grit
This book was hard to put down. Every time I started to read, I wanted to know what happened next. Every chapter was a new adventure for Brian O'Donoghue. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. März 1999 von jjlamkin@netscape.net
O'Donoghue captures the essence of the Iditarod
Brian O'Donoghue uses his experience as a journalist with his flair as a writer to give you all the facts you need to appreciate the depth of his true adventure as a musher. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. November 1997 von weirdo
Frank Discussion of Other Mushers Adds to Realism of Book..
I ordered this book based on rave reviews of others. Initially,
the shift in time from one scene to another is confusing, but
once the reader gets used to the format,... Lesen Sie weiter...
the shift in time from one scene to another is confusing, but
once the reader gets used to the format,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. Juni 1996 veröffentlicht
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