This Much Country: A Memoir

by Kristin Knight Pace Narrated by Kristin Knight Pace

Overview

A memoir of heartbreak, thousand-mile races, the endless Alaskan wilderness and many, many dogs from one of only a handful of women to have completed both the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod.

In 2009, after a crippling divorce that left her heartbroken and directionless, Kristin decided to accept an offer to live at a friend's cabin outside of Denali National Park in Alaska for a few months. In exchange for housing, she would take care of her friend's eight sled dogs.

That winter, she learned that she was tougher than she ever knew. She learned how to survive in one of the most remote places on Earth and she learned she was strong enough to be alone. She fell in love twice: first with running sled dogs, and then with Andy, a gentle man who had himself moved to Alaska to heal a broken heart.

Kristin and Andy married and started a sled dog kennel. While this work was enormously satisfying, Kristin became determined to complete the Iditarod — the 1,000-mile dogsled race from Anchorage, in south central Alaska, to Nome on the western Bering Sea coast.

This Much Country is the story of renewal and transformation. It's about journeying across a wild and unpredictable landscape and finding inner peace, courage and a true home. It's about pushing boundaries and overcoming paralyzing fears.

Editorial Reviews

SEPTEMBER 2019 - AudioFile

Kristin Knight Pace’s emotions are unmistakably present in her voice throughout this memoir of moving from Texas as a teenager to Montana and then Alaska, getting divorced and finding true love, learning how to run sled dogs, and competing in the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod. Pace seems to relive all those feelings and experiences as she delivers her own words. Crystal clear are her love for her husband and affection for her sled dogs, gratitude for friends who come to the rescue when cars get stuck or water hoses break in the cold, and fury when a drunk deliberately kills a mushing dog during a race. When Pace describes the loss of her beloved Moose—the giant dog that inspired the name of her kennel—it sounds as if she actually sheds tears in the studio. A.B. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

SEPTEMBER 2019 - AudioFile

Kristin Knight Pace’s emotions are unmistakably present in her voice throughout this memoir of moving from Texas as a teenager to Montana and then Alaska, getting divorced and finding true love, learning how to run sled dogs, and competing in the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod. Pace seems to relive all those feelings and experiences as she delivers her own words. Crystal clear are her love for her husband and affection for her sled dogs, gratitude for friends who come to the rescue when cars get stuck or water hoses break in the cold, and fury when a drunk deliberately kills a mushing dog during a race. When Pace describes the loss of her beloved Moose—the giant dog that inspired the name of her kennel—it sounds as if she actually sheds tears in the studio. A.B. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170237210
Publisher:	Hachette Audio
Publication date:	03/05/2019
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	989,559

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