Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled
Winter Journeys, Missionary Life, and Indigenous Communities in Interior AlaskaBy Hudson Stuck
Length8h 7m
About this audiobook
Hudson Stuck's Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled is both an adventure narrative and a substantial documentary portrait of the Alaskan interior. Drawing on years of travel by sled, riverboat, and trail, Stuck describes vast distances, severe weather, Indigenous communities, isolated settlements, missionary stations, and the demanding practicalities of northern travel. His prose combines vivid description with an orderly, observant style shaped by the conventions of early twentieth-century exploration, while also incorporating geography, natural history, ethnographic observation, and reflections on colonial encounter. The book therefore belongs not merely to polar travel literature, but to the broader tradition of frontier reportage and American imperial-era expedition writing. Stuck, an Episcopal archdeacon and missionary who served throughout Alaska, wrote from unusually sustained firsthand experience. His ecclesiastical vocation brought him into regular contact with remote Native communities and frontier populations, while his duties required persistent movement through a landscape in which the dog team was an essential technology of communication and survival. His knowledge of local routes, seasonal conditions, and northern lifeways gives the narrative authority, even as his assumptions reveal the cultural attitudes of his period. Readers interested in exploration, environmental history, Indigenous–settler relations, and the literary construction of the Alaskan frontier will find this book especially rewarding. It offers exhilaration without sacrificing logistical detail, and its record of an imperiled, rapidly changing world makes it valuable both as compelling travel literature and as a historical source to be read critically.
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GenreTravel
Length8 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 24, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Trans-Himalaya – Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)
2CHANDALAR VILLAGE TO BETTLES, COLDFOOT, AND THE KOYUKUK
3BETTLES TO THE PACIFIC—THE ALATNA, KOBUK PORTAGE, KOBUK VILLAGE, KOTZEBUE SOUND
4THE SEWARD PENINSULA—CANDLE CREEK, COUNCIL, AND NOME
5NOME TO FAIRBANKS—NORTON SOUND—THE KALTAG PORTAGE—NULATO—UP THE YUKON TO TANANA
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6THE "FIRST ICE"—AN AUTUMN ADVENTURE ON THE KOYUKUK
7THE KOYUKUK TO THE YUKON AND TO TANANA—CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS AT SAINT JOHN'S-IN-THE-WILDERNESS
8UP THE YUKON TO RAMPART AND ACROSS COUNTRY TO THE TANANA—ALASKAN AGRICULTURE—THE GOOD DOG NANOOK—MISS FARTHING'S BOYS AT NENANA—CHENA AND FAIRBANKS
9TANANA CROSSING TO FORTYMILE AND DOWN THE YUKON—A PATRIARCHAL CHIEF—SWARMING CARIBOU—EAGLE AND FORT EGBERT—CIRCLE CITY AND FORT YUKON
10FROM THE TANANA RIVER TO THE KUSKOKWIM—THENCE TO THE IDITAROD MINING CAMP—THENCE TO THE YUKON, AND UP THAT RIVER TO FORT YUKON
11THE NATIVES OF ALASKA
12PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE ARCTIC
13THE NORTHERN LIGHTS
14THE ALASKAN DOGS
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