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IDITAROD a novel of The Greatest Race on Earth [Kindle Edition]

André Jute
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Marchez! -- A race for survival

When Rhodes Delaney challenged James Alderston Whitbury III to a grudge match she chose the most grueling of all tests -- the Iditarod: a lethal dogsled race across the perilous wastelands of barren Alaska.

Through life-sapping storms, howling blizzards, and deadly sub-zero temperatures, the racers must struggle over treacherous mountain passes where the sun's rays never reach, cross frozen rivers risking the icy torrents below, and pass enraged bull moose, ravenous bears -- and the world's largest, hungriest wolf pack.

In Iditarod, André Jute puts the reader's feet on the ice and on the runners for twelve hundred hazardous miles of the last great race across the last dangerous frontier as the exhausted bodies and hallucinating minds of the contestants battle towards the moment of truth -- when Man and Nature exact the ultimate reckoning from each other.

Iditarod is at once a love story, a great adventure, and a brilliant word portrait of the world's most spectacular and least-known land.

First published in the UK by Grafton Books 1990, Iditarod is fully revised for this 20th anniversary 2010 edition by CoolMain Press.

Now with a map of the race especially drawn to work with e-book tablets.

Product details

  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 617 KB
  • Print Length: 337 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1908369000
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Publisher: CoolMain Press; 2 edition (16 Dec 2010)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.ŕ r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B004GKMQE8
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #107,634 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Snow snow and more snow 17 Oct 2011
Format:Kindle Edition
What can I say? This book is an immense story. My finger nails are no more.

The Iditarod is a race across the Alaskan countryside of well over a thousand miles. Easy you may think, but it's a dog sled ride in temperatures of minus stupid and winds of way past gale force with snow getting everywhere you don't want snow. This is no winter wonderland.

Andre describes this utter whiteness so well you can feel you are there. Also the loneliness of the competitors makes you want to go hug the nearest person (not if you are reading it on public transport !!!!!!)

The way the side story of the wolves is written made me think of David Attenborough doing the narration. There was a definite shift in the writing that made you realise that this is a seperate part of the story and built it up to the climax of the finale.

I believe most of this story is true, just the two main characters with their "sub-race" is the fictional part.

I can really imagine this as a film. But in a made-for-TV movie kind of way If it was a blockbuster it would be all about the stars, but on "Real Stories TV", the dogs and the landscape would be the bigger stars.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting 19 Dec 2010
Format:Kindle Edition
This book captures the human spirit fighting against the elements with their faithful canine companions alongside. There is danger at every turn and you never know what's going to happen next. The characters are believable and while courageous they're flawed like any other human being.

I've been out in -50 in the North of Canada, this book immediately transported me back to the frozen wastes and the constant nagging fear of being caught out in an unforgiving landscape. Even while writing this review I'm sure the temperature has dropped 5 degrees :)

A thoroughly gripping read I couldn't put it down.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Having been privileged to read an advance copy of the Kindle edition I can certainly recommend it to anyone who is a fan of adventure. The beginning is a little abrupt, and it isn't until the race starts that you really get to know the characters. Andre Jute makes you feel the race come alive as he focuses on first one character, and then the next, alone on the race with nothing but their thoughts and their memories of what has brought them to that place. The ending is not unexpected, but it is described in thrilling detail and you can't help but wonder what you would do if you were on of the racers.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A thriller and a mega-adventure in the wilds of Alaska
IDITAROD - A Novel of the Greatest Race on Earth -

ANDRE JUTE

Reviewed by: Dr Benjamin Pittman

André Jute certainly wastes no time in... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Dr Benjamin
5.0 out of 5 stars A great adventure story.
A while ago, I read something about the concept of 'setting as character'. I didn't understand it until I read `Iditarod' by Andre Jute. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Koala
4.0 out of 5 stars A captivating adventure...
Iditarod: a novel of the The Greatest Race on Earth

The Iditarod race has always fascinated me so I was intrigued by this book from the moment I saw the illustrious... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Sharon Tillotson
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
This book is well worth getting. I don't usually read romance stories but with this one being about something I'm interersted in, mainly travel/adventurous sports. Read more
Published on 17 Jan 2011 by Cate1976
5.0 out of 5 stars Brrrrilliant !
I began reading this book as a sample and for the first time clicked `Buy` without hesitation .

This tale forges a path through your imagination like a runaway train ,... Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2011 by willie wit
5.0 out of 5 stars Captures all the excitement of the Iditarod Race
A fascinating and exciting race with dogs and sleds over 1200 mile of snow and ice covered Alaska. This well researched book captures the thrills and spills of man (and woman)... Read more
Published on 18 Dec 2010 by Prints of Whales
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