Three-time Newberry Honor author, is no stranger to adventure. He has flown off the back of a dogsled and down a frozen waterfall to near disaster, and waited for a giant bear to steal his fate with one slap of a claw. Remarkable experiences that shaped his life. He has a team of sled dogs toward the
Alaskan Mountain Range in an Iditarod. The grueling 1,180 mile dogsled race, when he hallucinates from lack of sleep, but determined to finish. The adventure really begins in difference, the great differences between people and animals, between the way we live now and the way we lived once, between the mall and the woods.
Paulsen opens his book with a vivid retelling of a story in which he watched brush wolves kill and devour a live doe in the woods. In all of their …show more content…
Storm was almost a Classics sled dog. He looked much like a brindle wolf, with beautifully slanted eyes but had a great reach to his front legs and very primitive.
Forty, fifty, even sixty below zero, actual temperature in Alaska. In the summer the dogs live in the kennel area, each dog with his own house, on a chain that allows him to move in a circle.
Sometimes dogs clear across the kennel will hold their bones up In the air, look at each other, raise their hair, and start growling at each other, posturing and bragging about their bones. There was a point where an old logging trail went through a small, sharp-sided gully, a tiny canyon. The trail came down one wall of the gully, a drop off fifty or so feet, then scooted across a frozen stream and up the other side. The dogs stayed on the trail but he immediately lost all control and went flying out into space with the sled. The dogs ran out of the ice of the steam but he fell onto it.
He has flown off the back of a dogsled and down a frozen waterfall to near disaster, and waited for a giant bear to steal his fate with one slap of a claw. He has lead a team of sled dogs toward