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| My Lead Dog Was A Lesbian: Mushing Across Alaska in the Iditarod--the World's Most Grueling Race | 
 enlarge | Author: Brian Patrick O'donoghue
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 431101
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0679764119
Dewey Decimal Number: 798.8
EAN: 9780679764113
ASIN: 0679764119
Publication Date: March 19, 1996
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| Customer Reviews:
 My Lead Dog Was A Lesbian March 1, 2001
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
I bought this book on the way to the airport for a flight to Helsinki. I wanted a book on mushing but and this was the only book the store had in so I grabbed it not convinced I was going to like it. Once I opened it I couldn't put it down. This has to be one of the greatest books I've ever read. This is a guy who can really keep a captive audience with his stories. And funny!!! I laughed almost all the way across the ocean. I'm a musher who wants to run the Iditarod and have gone through one when my boyfriend ran it and thought that's why I appreciated his humor so much but while I was in Helsinki my housemate who HATES dogs period and has ZERO intrest in mushing was laughing really hard one evening. I peeked into the livingroom to see what was so funny and there she was reading this book. I must have loaned it to a hundred people so far and everyone of them loved it! I reccomend this book to everyone!!! Even cat lovers! PS - we even "borrowed" one of his dog's names for one of ours!
Great little book! September 6, 2000
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I live in CA now, but I'm originally from Minnesota and try to get back to MN for at least two winter weeks every year - yes, in WINTER! This year I'm trying to put together a dogsledding day trip for the whole family when visiting MN. I bought this book a few years ago, and it's always stuck in my mind. It made me determined to at least try mushing, even if only as a tourist! If you ever get a chance to see the start of a dogsledding race, you will be amazed and pumped at how they have to restrain the dogs at the starting pole. They want to RUN so badly, it's an awesome sight.
Mush On! February 19, 2000
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Last January I drove a twelve dog sled along the Iditarod Trail outside Nome. I had not gone far when I was thrown from the runners whilst overturning the sled. That one event gave me a new appreciation for anyone who can not just mush, but run and complete the Iditarod. This is one fantastic book, well written, and suspensful. Since most of us will never do the race, it is the next best thing to pick up on a cold winter's night and dream of glory or humiliation. I know how the author did in the race, but I won't reveal the ending. Take it from someone who drove the Iditarod for three feet, you will love this book with the strange name.
Mush February 5, 2000
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
On a cold winter night, to read this excellent book is about as close as most of us will ever get to doing the Iditarod Trail. I tried it with twelve dogs outside Nome last January, and I made it three feet before being thrown from the runners. That brief stint gave me a tremendous appreciation for the people who undertake the difficult journey. Brian has written a book as fast moving as the race itself. From the first page, I was entralled to see how he would finish. I know, but I won't spoil it for the reader. It's enough to say that as Brian approached Nome, I found myself pulling for him. Such is the way he can write. If one wants to know what it entails to make the one thousand mile plus journey, it can be found here. So pick up this wonderfully written and exciting book, sit back, and experience Alaska at its best.
A story about Grit March 2, 1999
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book was hard to put down. Every time I started to read, I wanted to know what happened next. Every chapter was a new adventure for Brian O'Donoghue. I have a deep respect for what he did. I can only imagine how it was attempting to finish the "Last Great Race", the Iditarod. This is a TRUE story about determination and strong will power to accomplish one thing, finish the Iditarod.
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