Ask a Bookseller: An explorer searches for his lost son in 'stirring' memoir
Angela Libal from Title Wave Books in Anchorage, Alaska, recommended a book with Alaska significance and national appeal: the memoir “The Adventurer’s Son” by Roman Dial.
Legendary explorer Dial raised his family for a life of outdoor adventuring. When his 27 year-old son went missing in the Costa Rican jungle, the family embarked on a two-year search to find him. Ultimately, his body was discovered, with no sign of foul play. (Given the national attention this search received, this is not a spoiler.) This touching memoir recounts that search and reflects upon the risks of exploring extreme wilderness.
Libal calls the memoir “stirring and haunting, full of all kinds of backstory about he [sic] and his family’s adventuring all over the world, from Australia all the way up into the Arctic.”
This recommendation was first featured on Ask a Bookseller in April.
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