The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic by Laney Salisbury, Gay Salisbury

The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic

Laney Salisbury, Gay Salisbury

267 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative inspiring slow-paced
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When a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away, the port was icebound, and planes couldn'...

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