Racing the White Silence
Subtitle: On the Trail of the Yukon Quest
Publisher: Penguin Global
Published: May 16, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780141003733
First sentence: EVERY FEBRUARY, under the cold flames of the aurora borealis and the brief, grey arctic sun, a small group of hardy men and women, each with an ash or aluminum sled and fourteen dogs, begins a long, lonely trek on and over a land and distance almost impossible to conceive: 1,640 kilometres of the least hospitable real estate on the planet, between Whitehorse,Yukon, and Fairbanks, Alaska.