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Alaska Dog Mushing Guide: Facts and Legends

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This was an ok book. It was full of unusual stories, but I noticed that a few facts weren't fully correct. I was also a little disappointed to see that the author only referred to Eskimo Dogs as Malamutes. He must not have known that an aboriginal dog from Canada is also referred to as the Canadian Eskimo (Inuit) Dog or Eskimo (Inuit) Husky. Other than that, it was a fast read with some good information.

I got an autographed and numbered copy; that was cool. But the book was a bit difficult to read at points. It was almost as if English was a second language to the author. There was plenty of information that I wasn't aware of, but it was presented in a random fashion. Take a bunch of facts from an Alaska history book, put them on individual note cards and shuffle them; that was how the book seemed to be written. Some stories were written more than once in the book, word for word, with nothing new in the story; just a space filler.

This is a great little book packed full of very interesting and amazing information. This book is a great little read when you have a spare minute or two.