Dogs on the Trail by Blair Braverman

Dogs on the Trail

A Year in the Life

Blair Braverman, Quince Mountain

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · November 16, 2021

A delightful photographic journey into a year in the life of a team of sled dogs, based on Braverman’s wildly popular Twitter feed.

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Who it’s for
Get close to a sled-dog team through a year of work, weather, and everyday stories.
Themes
Sled-dog care and training, Musher life, Wilderness as home
Genres
Dogs, Pet Stories & Essays, Winter Sports

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A delightful photographic journey into a year in the life of a team of sled dogs, based on Braverman’s wildly popular Twitter feed. When Blair Braverman started posting pictures of her dog team on Twitter, she had no idea the response she would get. Being a musher, after all, isn’t just about racing—raising dogs from puppyhood to retirement (and beyond) is a full-time job. She and her husband, musher Quince Mountain, wanted to share stories about life with their dog team.

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And not just the big stuff, like expeditions and wild animal encounters, but also the everyday things: the challenge of storing a thousand pounds of raw meat, scouting new trails with the dogs, the decisions that go into putting a team together, how she trains puppies to be brave. These were goofy stories, scary stories, heartfelt stories, stories that clearly connected with people and kept going viral. Inspired by those connections, Dogs on the Trail is a chronicle of a year in the life of their dog team. Beginning in the fall as the weather starts to cool, training on both dry land and in the snow, then camping and racing. Spring brings mud—lousy for sledding, but the dogs love it. And summer is the season of puppies. The book ends on a beginning, in anticipation of the adventurous lives that the new pups have in store. An irresistible adventure, Dogs on the Trail will delight and entertain while taking you inside a musher’s world, and showing you why the wilderness isn’t simply a place to visit but also a home to return to.

Life With Dogs

Get close to a sled-dog team through a year of work, weather, and everyday stories.

Come here for

  • The everyday work of raising and training sled dogs
  • Goofy, scary, heartfelt glimpses of a musher’s life

Expect

  • A seasonal arc from fall training to summer puppies
  • Wilderness as home, not just somewhere to visit

Where it sits

Dogs42%
Winter Sports33%
Pet Stories & Essays23%

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Publisher categories

  • Drawing Techniques
  • Sci-Fi & Fantasy Art
  • Color Photography
  • Dogs
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  • Dog Breeds
  • Training Your Dog
  • History of Photography
  • Nature Photography
Authors
Blair Braverman, Quince Mountain
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
November 16, 2021
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Sled-dog care and training · Musher life · Wilderness as home
Reading lane
Drawing Techniques