My super awesome book that I'm reading. It's about a town in Alaska called Nome that suffers a diptheria epidemic in 1925. Cut off from the world during a blistering cold winter and without any antitoxin a race against time to bring in antitoxin by dog sled begins.

It's a damn good read and I'm loving it. 70 odd pages to go. I really enjoy stories like this - arctic cold stories of will and survival. Where you get a feel for yhe people at the time and you really warm to them in their journey.

There's another book I found on the interwebs about a Russian ship that gets stranded in the arctic for 3 years and the seamen survive this living on the ice. Really want to read that.


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