Woodsong
by: nick spires
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Woodsong was a book about how the author of the book (Gary Paulsen) was in the Iditarod and how he had to face challenges. He trained his dogs for the Iditarod and had no idea on what was to come. He
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Part One closes, and Part Two begins with Paulsen entering a team of fifteen of his dogs in the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, an approximately 1,153 mile-long sled dog race from Anchorage, Alaska to Nome, Alaska. The race proves to be long and arduous. Extreme cold conditions and difficult terrain put both he and his team to the test. He is repeatedly afflicted by lifelike hallucinations caused by extreme sleep deprivation, such as a man with a trench coat talking about educational grants, and hallucinating about a man hallucinating.