The Cruelest Miles
Subtitle: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780393019629
First sentence: THERE WERE few worse places on earth to build a town, but Nome had gone up almost overnight after two Swedes and a Norwegian found a nugget the size of a small rock in a creek near the beach.