Racing the White Silence: On the trail of the Yukon Quest is Adam's first book, published worldwide by the Penguin Group.

Unlike the Iditarod, the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race isn't for moneyed adventurers with a fanciful interest in mushing. The race, billed as the toughest in the world, crosses 1,000 miles of forbidding land between Whitehorse and Fairbanks, Alaska, and pits man, woman and dog against the nastiest that nature has to offer.

In Racing the White Silence, Canadian journalist Adam Killick follows the racers and their dogs for two weeks, taking us not only into the heartland of the Yukon and Alaska, but into the minds of the extraordinary people who dare to race. Equally important to this story are the dogs-determined animals with a truly astonishing physiology that allows them to outperform racehorses. And then, there is the land: inaccessible, sparsely populated, and unforgiving. Now in paperback format with eight pages of Killick's own spectacular photographs, Racing the White Silence is a mesmerizing eye-witness account of the strength and courage of both man and animal, and a breathtaking portrait of the Canadian and American North.

Racing the White Silence was shortlisted for the Edna Staebler Award, the Canadian prize for creative non-fiction awarded for a writer's first or second book.

"Killick approaches his subject with a newspaperman's discipline, structure, and eye for detail. It's Killick's talent as a writer and his reverence for the subject that make this book an enthralling tale from beginning to end."
--The Globe and Mail

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