Lost and Found in Alaska
Overview
Joel Rudinger takes us to Alaska when statehood was brand new, its frontier breathtaking-and dangerous. His is a physical and cultural journey where life, without exaggeration, is lived on the edge. Growing up middle class in Ohio, Rudinger wills himself towards the extraordinary. First, with going to Alaska-of all places-for graduate school. Then taking on jobs for which he had no training or visible aptitude. Later he's hitchhiking the Alcan Highway with a lover, pushing himself repeatedly to physical and spiritual limits.
Rudinger tells his story in striking first-person detail. Events six decades old are told as though they happened just last summer, raw, not romanticized. Having left Ohio in 1960 a man-child, he returns four years later deeply experienced in all the ways of the world.
"Lost and Found in Alaska" is a must-read. For its history. For its exquisite capturing of frontier life. For the sheer courage of its author.
Kurt Landefeld, author of Jack's Memoirs: Off the Road
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781947504257
- ISBN-10: 1947504258
- Publisher: Bird Dog Publishing
- Publish Date: October 2020
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.55 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.79 pounds
- Page Count: 242
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