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...grueling 1,100-mile course traversed two mountain ranges, the Yukon River and the frozen Norton Sound. Besting 61 starters and unusually bad weather conditions, as well as overcoming a gender barrier, was Libby Riddles, 28, the first woman ever to win Alaska's Anchorage-to-Nome Iditarod dogsled race. Two weeks into the 18-day trek, while her competition opted to sit out a fierce snowstorm, the musher from Teller, Alaska, pressed on with her team of 13 dogs. Out on the ice, almost unable to see, "I kept telling myself how foolish I was being for doing this...
...that its thick forests and clear mountain lakes afford it the resources to go it alone. As a pocket of Europe, American-style, graced with both fairy-tale cobbled streets and shiny futuristic shopping malls, the province seems already to belong to a different country from Newfoundland or the Yukon...
...learn to throw spears, use slings to hurl stones, build a fire without matches, communicate in a special sign language and, most demanding of all, claims the leggy lady, "act in the cold and pretend we're warm. Even with those furs, it's freezing in the Yukon...
...alone verisimilitude--but they serve admirable to frame Mowat's journey into awareness through the medium of Ballard's slightly surreal vision. If at times the meshing of beguiling photography with the Tangerine Dream-like score begins dangerously to suggest Jean-Jacques Beneix's slideshow of an imaginary Yukon trip, at least Ballard errs on the side of elegance...
...year period, suggested that the author viewed postwar American dreams and the liberal imagination with a considered lack of seriousness. Little Big Man's Jack Crabb left a permanent brand on the founding myths of the Old West, and Neighbors contained a persuasive argument for living in the Yukon with an unlisted phone number and a mailbox stenciled THE LEPERS...