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Resumen de Diez mil millas en trineo tirado por perros
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For readers who love real journeys, cold places, working animals and firsthand history of the American North.
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Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled is a travel book by Hudson Stuck, published in 1914. Stuck was an English-born Episcopal clergyman who served as Archdeacon of the Yukon. His parish was a huge stretch of Alaska with almost no roads, so for the long winters he travelled by dog team, visiting missions, villages and mining camps. The book gathers those winter journeys into one account.
You get the trail from the inside. Stuck tells how a team is chosen, fed and driven, how a traveller sleeps at forty below, and what it is like to cross the frozen rivers that serve as the highways of the interior. You also meet the Native peoples he lived among and the miners, traders and drifters he met in roadhouses. He writes as a witness with firm opinions. The first thing to understand is why a clergyman took to the trail at all.
En este resumen
- 1A clergyman whose parish is a wildernessFree
- 2The dog team is a living engine
- 3The trail sets the rules of the day
- 4Roadhouses, camps and the people on the trail
- 5Native peoples seen up close
- 6The land, the cold and what lasts
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A clergyman whose parish is a wilderness
Hudson Stuck was born in London in 1863 and made his career in the Episcopal Church, first in Texas and then in Alaska. As Archdeacon of the Yukon he was responsible for mission work across the interior, a region larger than many countries. Settlements lay hundreds of miles apart along rivers such as the Yukon, the Tanana and their tributaries. The book begins from this simple problem of distance.
In summer the rivers carried boats. In winter they froze, and the frozen rivers became roads. Stuck saw that the only dependable way to reach his scattered flock in the dark months was behind a team of dogs. So each winter he set out on long circuits, sleeping in tents, cabins and roadhouses.
Ten thousand miles is the sum of his winter travel over several seasons, and he treats the figure as plain fact rather than a boast. His aim is to show what such travel is really like, for readers who would never go there. He writes in the clear, confident prose of a well read man who has made a habit of observing.
Stuck is also a man with causes. He cares about the health and fair treatment of the Native people, and he has little patience for the harm that liquor and greed bring to the country. These concerns run through the book beside the trail stories. A reader meets a traveller who is part pastor, part explorer and part reporter, and who does not hide any of the three.
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Questions about Diez mil millas en trineo tirado por perros
What is Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled about?
It is Hudson Stuck's account of his winter journeys by dog team across interior Alaska. He describes the trail, the dogs, the cold, the roadhouses and the Native and settler communities he visited as a missionary archdeacon.
Who was Hudson Stuck?
Stuck was an English-born Episcopal clergyman who served as Archdeacon of the Yukon. He travelled thousands of miles by dog team, campaigned for fair treatment of Native people, and led the first ascent of Denali in 1913.
Is Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled a true story?
Yes. It is a nonfiction travel narrative based on the author's own journeys. It was published in 1914 and draws on winters of travel in Alaska during the early years of the twentieth century.
Is Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled hard to read?
No. The prose is clear and lively.
Is Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled worth reading today?
It is worth reading for its firsthand picture of Alaskan winter travel, dog driving and frontier society. It also records the author's concern for Native rights.