Lost and Found in Alaska

By: Rudinger, Joel D.

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1947504258
• ISBN13: 9781947504257
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Bird Dog Publishing
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"