ROSIE SWALE POPE
Just a Little
Run Around the World
5 years,
3 packs of wolves and 53 pairs of shoes
‘Things last for ever,
not in years, but in the moments in which they happen.’ —Rosie Swale Pope
For Clive, Eve and James, Pete, Jayne and Nigel and the rest of my family far and wide.
Contents
Chapter 5 - Eric the Wild Boar
Chapter 6 - Need Makes the Naked Lady Spin
Chapter 7 - Rip Van Winkle in a Snow-hole
Chapter 8 - Touching the Stars
Chapter 9 - A Stranger is Family
Chapter 10 - The World of Special So-called Ordinary People
Chapter 11 - Shaken not Stirred
Chapter 12 - The Rising of the Phoenix
Chapter 13 - To Russia with Love
Chapter 14 - Unstoppable Friend
Chapter 15 - Paw-prints in the Snow
Chapter 16 - Kitezh: Bad Times Can End
Chapter 17 - The Axeman Cometh
Chapter 18 - Running into Asia
Chapter 19 - Omsk: The First Race
Chapter 20 - Bandit on a Bicycle
Chapter 21 - In a Siberian Hospital
Chapter 22 - Winter in Siberia
Chapter 23 - A Siberian Bridge Has No Middle
Chapter 24 - Falling in Love with Alaska
Chapter 25 - There’s No Place Like Nome
Chapter 26 - Surviving in Alaska
Chapter 33 - Ballad of the Red Toenails
Chapter 34 - Life Is a Marathon
Chapter 35 - I Am the Wildlife
Chapter 36 - Running Against the Current
Chapter 37 - New York, New York
Chapter 38 - Goodbye Charlie, Hello Icebird
Chapter 39 - The Most Beautiful Sound in the World
Chapter 40 - The World’s Largest Island
Chapter 41 - Vikings with Golden Hearts
Chapter 42 - Thor’s Hammer and Thorgeir’s Teabags
Chapter 43 - Just a Little Run Down Britain
Chapter 44 - The Last Frontier