Читать книгу Racing Toward Recovery. The Extraordinary Story of Alaska Musher Mike Williams Sr. онлайн
2 страница из 77
Design by Vicki Knapton
Published by Alaska Northwest Books®
An imprint of
P.O. Box 56118
Portland, Oregon 97238-6118
503-254-5591
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Mike Williams Sr. is a resident of the village of Akiak in Alaska. He is a longtime competitor in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, a leading figure in the Sobriety Movement for Alaska Natives, and an activist for improved living conditions for Natives in the Alaska Bush.
Lew Freedman is a veteran journalist and author who lived in Alaska for seventeen years and is the author of numerous books on dog mushing and stories from Alaska.
FOREWORDS
I have known Mike Williams since 1976 when I lived in Bethel. I knew Mike, his brother Walter, who was a really good sprint musher, the best of the best, and I knew his father Tim, who was a fisherman. I moved to Bethel to work for Alaska Fish and Game and everybody fished for salmon for their dogs.
When I first knew Mike, he and his brothers, and just about everyone else in the Bethel area, were subsistence fishermen. Mike and his brothers had a substance abuse problem. It is hard to watch people you really like self-destructing. It was just so sad. So it is incredible what Mike has overcome in his life.