The Cruelest Miles

The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic

By Gay Salisbury; Laney Salisbury
(W. W. Norton & Company, Paperback, 9780393325706, 320pp.)

Publication Date: February 2005

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover, Compact Disc

Categories: General, Forensic Medicine

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Alaska, 1925: the diphtheria serum is 674 miles away. Without it, the people of Nome will not survive. "The Cruelist Miles" is the never-before-told tale of the dogs and men who braved blizzard conditions to save Nome, Alaska, from diphtheria. 34 illustrations.
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