Racing Toward Recovery: The Extraordinary Story of Alaska

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Racing Toward Recovery: The Extraordinary Story of Alaska Musher Mike Williams Sr.

For the first time, Alaska musher and tribal leader Mike Williams shares his remarkable life story with veteran sports writer Lew Freedman. Williams is a man of many parts, a sports figure, a government figure, a leader of his people, a husband, a father, and a Native man with one foot firmly planted in the twenty-first century and another firmly planted in the roots of a culture that dates back 10,000 years in Alaska. Williams competed in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race fifteen times, and was once the only Yupâ€™ik Eskimo musher, a symbol to all Natives around the state. Although he was never a top contender for the Iditarod title, he was a competitor whom everyone cheered because he resolved that to shed light on one of Alaskaâ€™s greatest threats to the health and future of its Native people, he would carry in his dog sled pagesâ€•pounds worthâ€•of signatures of people who had pledged sobriety. A Yupâ€™ik Eskimo, Williams saw firsthand how alcohol could devastate people as surely as if they had contracted a deadly flu: each of his brothers had succumbed to alcohol-related accidents, incidents, or illnesses. Williams describes how he recovered from his dependence on alcohol through religion, loved ones, and racing dogs. For many years Williams carried those sobriety pledges in his sled, focusing attention on a troubling, seemingly intractable problem. Williams gained national attention, being profiled by CNN, Sports Illustrated, and Good Morning America. Fellow Iditarod competitors have voted him â€œthe most inspirational musher.â€
Country USA
Brand Alaska Northwest Books
Manufacturer Alaska Northwest Books
Binding Paperback
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EANs 9781941821442
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Alaska Northwest Books
Manufacturer	Alaska Northwest Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Refer to Sapnet.
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781941821442
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Racing Toward Recovery: The Extraordinary Story of Alaska Musher Mike Williams Sr.

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