This Much Country

hardcover, 336 pages

Published March 5, 2019 by Grand Central Publishing.

ISBN:
978-1-5387-6240-0
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Review of 'This Much Country' on 'Goodreads'

In der ersten Hälfte geht es sehr detailliert um das Scheitern der ersten Ehe der Autorin, das hat mich weniger interessiert. Aber die zweite Hälfte handelt von Schlittenhunden und Schlittenhunderennen. Ich hätte mir noch mehr technische Details gewünscht, aber so war es auch schon ganz gut. Es kommen überraschend viele Frauen vor ("Alaska: Where men are men and women win the Iditarod") und die Autorin führt das, was sie da ganz ohne Selbstzweifel macht, auf ein Outdoorfähigkeiten-Sommercamp für Mädchen zurück, an dem sie als Kind jeden Sommer teilgenommen hat.

Review of 'This Much Country' on 'Goodreads'

Last time I read nonfiction I think it was [b:Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People|1523436|Evolution's Rainbow Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People|Joan Roughgarden|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1184690702l/1523436.SY75.jpg|1515317], so this is very clearly only happening because of my descent into dog-sledding madness.

Listen, do you want to read a book about someone who discovers that what she really wants is to live somewhere that has 18 hours of light in the summer and eighteen hours of dark in the winter, to pick up industrial quantities of dog-poop every day so that she can get pulled through the darkness by dogs? This is your book!

Despite being not really my sort of book, this was a fairly easy read. Knight Pace is a talented writer, and made Alaska come alive vividly, made hard work seem like epic poetry, and the entire thing shines with her love of dogs, …

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