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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Just in from the trail! ANCHORAGE, ALASKA. – Graphic Arts Publishing Company is pleased to announce the year’s first good book about the Last Great Race. Iditarod Glory (Graphic Arts Books, February 2006), with photos by official Iditarod photographer Jeff Schultz and text by Brian Patrick O’Donoghue, is an unprecedented compilation of a quarter-century of Iditarod history as seen through Schultz’s lens. This 144-page title offers a compelling narrative of the race’s past and present alongside lush, full-color images that take the reader from the start in downtown Anchorage to the Burled Arch finish in Nome. Schultz illustrates the book with 120 spectacular pictures as well as colorful captions (“The first thing a musher learns is ‘never let go’”). Unforgettable images tell an annual story familiar to all Alaskans: mushers navigating terrain ranging from bare ground to frozen lakes, exhausted but happy dogs resting at checkpoints, Bush pilots airlifting race supplies on flights like the one that nearly killed Schultz in a crash one year. An essay by journalist turned Iditarod musher O’Donoghue provides insights from the 1,100-mile trail, celebrating not only its human and canine athletes but also the thousands of volunteers who make the race possible. His lively text describes how the race, winning strategies, and gear have evolved during their 33-year history. Ever since the birth of the Iditarod, the world’s greatest mushers, legends like Butcher and Swenson, Buser, and Sorlie, have come to Alaska in pursuit of one thing. Many have sought it, but now Iditarod Glory can be yours. May I send you a review copy? Please let me know if you have any questions. 907.278.8838 or christyb@gacpc.com
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Jeff Schultz has lived in Alaska since 1978 and began photographing the Iditarod as a volunteer, donating his time to the event each year. His Alaska images have appeared in numerous books, magazines, newspapers and calendars. His work has been featured in National Geographic, Outside, Time, Audubon, Geo Germany, and Sports Illustrated. His book credits include Iditarod: Great Race to Nome and Iditarod Country. An internationally published photographer, Schultz also owns and operates a stock photo agency in Anchorage, where he lives with his wife and two children.
Brian Patrick O’Donoghue is a journalist, musher, and author of two books about sled dog racing, My Lead Dog Was a Lesbian and Honest Dogs, recounting his last-place runs in the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod, respectively. During a twenty-year career as a journalist he served as a photographer, reporter, and editor for daily newspapers in Alaska—including the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner—and alternative weeklies in Baltimore, New York and Washington, D.C. He is currently an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He and his wife, two sons, and dozens of howling sled dogs, live in Two Rivers, Alaska.