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Title: Alone Across the Arctic: One Woman's Epic Journey by Dog team by Pam Flowers, Ann Dixon ISBN: 0-88240-539-X Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wow! What a story...
Comment: Like adventure? This book has it on every page! Prefer suspense? Try figuratively walking behind Pam Flowers as she crosses rotting arctic ice, not knowing whether she'll be able to make it to land. Want a good animal story? Here's one that stars eight dogs, with other species making cameo appearances. And, by the way, it also shows a lot about the incredible bonds of trust, companionship and loyalty which can develop in a team which includes dogs and humans. Hope to inspire someone to dream big dreams and work hard to make them come true? This is one of the most inspirational books I've ever read. And there's more...cross-cultural experiences, lots of information about life and survival in today's Arctic regions, history and humor.
Written for fifth and sixth graders, this is a definite cross-over book. I can't imagine an adult who would find it childish; third and fourth graders will enjoy listening to it.
The well-chosen photos illustrate the perhaps-unexpected beauty of the coastal Arctic, as well as the harshness of parts of the trip. And the side bars provide lots of information which illuminates the story without interrupting its flow.
What a woman! What a dog team! What a story!
Rating: 4
Summary: A remarkable story ...
Comment: This remarkable author relates an ancient saga of northern courage in a 20th century setting, the frozen arctic rim of the North American continent. Pam Flowers, respiratory therapist by profession but dog musher by choice, lived a lifelong dream when she, her dogs, and supply-laden sleds made a 2500-mile trek above the Arctic Circle from Barrow in Alaska to Repulse Bay on the northwestern shore of Canada's Hudson Bay.
Alone with a tandem pair of dogsleds pulled by the eight Husky-mix dogs she trained herself, Flowers spent more than a year en route. She left Barrow Feb. 14, 1993, and mushed triumphantly - and gratefully - into the Inuit village on Hudson's Bay Jan. 9, 1994. The Mayor and ten others from the small settlement came out to greet and congratulate her. To Flowers, who had spent so long alone on the trek, the group seemed like a crowd.
It is the spirit of adventure that motivates the courage and daring of the small, 100-pound woman who is pictured engulfed by her bulky arctic gear and huge insulated boots. Her notes and photos of the careful planning and training for that epic journey clearly convey the danger, the excitement and the moments of trepidation when facing the barren and forbidding arctic.
This determined little woman has run the famed 1200-mile Iditarod Race to Nome, Alaska in 1983. "I ran," she writes, "not to win, but to learn about caring for dogs on long journeys." She put the knowledge she gained into two later, successful trips to the Magnetic North Pole and several trips along the northern coast of Alaska. Finally came the idea to retrace the route of the historic journey of Knud Rasmussen in 1923.
To provide herself with adequate supplies for herself and her dogs for such a long trip. Flowers mailed ahead bundles of necessities to be stashed, along with extra fuel for her little stove, at schools in settlements along her route. In return for that courtesy, on her arrival she talked to the classes about her life, her mushing, and her dogs.
Flowers' much-loved dogs, with all their individual personality traits and quirks, become the stars of this story. Their names become in the narrative as familiar as beloved characters in a novel. These are pets only in a secondary sense; first and foremost, they are work dogs born and bred and they enjoy the runs over ice and snow every bit as much as their driver. They can sense an approaching storm, sniff a polar bear and recognize the faintly distant lights of a settlement that sends them racing forward.
Every moment of the story of this journey is absorbing, even the lengthy periods of storms and whiteouts when Flowers waits them out in her tiny pyramidal tent. There are dangers and there is frustration. There is fear and there is joy. At its end Flowers felt a surge of accomplishment. She had made that trip... because she wanted to!
Rating: 5
Summary: A Reader From South Carolina and frequent visitor to Alaska
Comment: Alone across the Arctic was a very well-written and compelling story. I hail from the South and really dislike the cold but found myself very engrossed in this woman's travel across the Arctic with only her dogs for companionship! Once I started this book I could hardly put it down until finished.
This small but strong woman does not resort to sensationalism but tells the true and wonderful story of the awesome beauty and wonder of the Arctic. You get to know each dog's personality and courage but most of all you grow to admire Pam Flowers' courage in following her dream.
You will enjoy every moment of this book
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Title: Big-Enough Anna by Pam Flowers, Bill Farnsworth, Ann Dixon ISBN: 0882405772 Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge by Jill Fredston ISBN: 0865476551 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 10 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Polar Dream: The First Solo Expedition by a Woman and Her Dog to the Magnetic North Pole by Helen Thayer, Edmund Hillary ISBN: 0939165457 Publisher: NewSage Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women and Their Extraordinary Journey Across Antarctica by Liv Arnesen, Ann Bancroft, Cheryl Dahle ISBN: 0738207942 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Arctic Crossing: One Man's 2,000-Mile Odyssey Among the Inuit by Jonathan Waterman ISBN: 1585747300 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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