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A young man's adventure of a lifetime by motorcycle from Mt. Shasta to Alaska on the Alaska Highway and a summer job at a fish camp near Denali National Park.

Produktbeschreibung
A young man's adventure of a lifetime by motorcycle from Mt. Shasta to Alaska on the Alaska Highway and a summer job at a fish camp near Denali National Park.
Autorenporträt
Warren Carlson began his adventurous life when, at age fourteen, he slept alone in the woods for the first time and discovered that the world was a friendly and beautiful place. Other adventures followed: climbing Mt. Shasta three times and Mt. Ranier once; solitary hikes in several national parks; alpine excursions in France, Switzerland, Spain, and Azerbaijan; Peace Corps Volunteer in the middle east; travel to India, Kashmir, Turkey, Ireland, England and yes, a solitary motorcycle ride to Alaska where he met some of the characters depicted in this book while others have been made up or transferred from other adventures.Carlson describes himself as a job vagabond. His employment adventures include ski instructor, actor-director-playwright, special needs teacher, newspaper reporter, carpenter, cowboy, ski area management, house designer and builder, and tour guide in three national parks.His literary credits include numerous short stories and poetry. (Northern Journeys, Spectrum, Jefferson Journal and others.) His plays have been produced in several venues including Spokane Repertory, Spokane, Washington; Actors' Theatre, Ashland, Oregon; and the Metta Theatre, Taos, New Mexico. He holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of California, Santa Barbara.