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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Destined to become an adventure classic." --Anchorage Daily News
Hailed as "gripping" (New York Times) and "beautiful" (Washington Post), The Adventurer's Son is Roman Dial's extraordinary and widely acclaimed account of his two-year quest to unravel the mystery of his son's disappearance in the jungles of Costa Rica.
In the predawn hours of July 10, 2014, the twenty-seven-year-old son of preeminent Alaskan scientist and National Geographic Explorer Roman Dial, walked alone into Corcovado National Park, an untracked rainforest along Costa Rica's remote Pacific Coast that shelters miners, poachers, and drug smugglers. He carried a light backpack and machete. Before he left, Cody Roman Dial emailed his father: "I am not sure how long it will take me, but I'm planning on doing 4 days in the jungle and a day to walk out. I'll be bounded by a trail to the west and the coast everywhere else, so it should be difficult to get lost forever."
They were the last words Dial received from his son.
As soon as he realized Cody Roman's return date had passed, Dial set off for Costa Rica. As he trekked through the dense jungle, interviewing locals and searching for clues--the authorities suspected murder--the desperate father was forced to confront the deepest questions about himself and his own role in the events. Roman had raised his son to be fearless, to be at home in earth's wildest places, travelling together through rugged Alaska to remote Borneo and Bhutan. Was he responsible for his son's fate? Or, as he hoped, was Cody Roman safe and using his wilderness skills on a solo adventure from which he would emerge at any moment?
Part detective story set in the most beautiful yet dangerous reaches of the planet, The Adventurer's Son emerges as a far deeper tale of discovery--a journey to understand the truth about those we love the most.
The Adventurer's Son includes fifty black-and-white photographs.
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
A father's outdoor adventures lead his son into danger in this gripping memoir. Dial, a biology professor at Alaska Pacific University, recounts the disappearance of his 27-year-old son, Cody Roman Dial, during a solo jungle trek in Costa Rica's Corcovado National Park. Flying down to lead the search, the author found a primeval forest full of perils--deadly snakes, falling trees, prowling drug smugglers--and bewildering mysteries: government bureaucrats blocked his searches; purported sightings of Cody accompanied by a local criminal surfaced; and Dial got enmeshed with a reality-TV show spinning a murder theory about the disappearance. Backgrounding the narrative are Dial's recollections of his own dangerous adventures--in one heart-stopping mountain-climbing incident, he leaped into a precipice to counterbalance a roped partner's plunge off the opposite side of a ridge--and of taking Cody, from the age of six, on risky wilderness excursions and white-water rafting trips. Dial conveys both his guilt at setting his son on that fateful path and the allure of that path--"y grief painted the jungle black, but the heart of the Osa's wilderness still left me awed.... I couldn't shut out forever the joy in seeing a kingfisher's blue flash or a spider monkey's graceful swing." Dial paints a riveting, richly conflicted portrait of family legacies and the call of the wild. (Feb.)
Kirkus Review
A brisk account of a father's search for his 27-year-old son, who vanished on a solo trek through Costa Rica's Corcovado jungle.Alaskan adventurer and ecologist Dial (Mathematics and Biology/Alaska Pacific Univ.; Packrafting! An Introduction and How-To Guide, 2008) chronicles his quest to figure out what happened to his son, Cody. Fusing personal history with elegy and adventure, this arresting narrative of every parent's worst fear begins with the author's background and then recounts the Dial family's many exciting excursions. Meticulous memories of father and son exploring places like Alaska and Borneo establish Cody as a person who grew into a capable adventurer and biologist. In the second section, the author pieces together Cody's volcano climbs and resourceful forays in Central America before contact with his parents ceased. His last email was written in Costa Rica in 2014, and its haunting last line"it should be difficult to get lost forever"reverberates throughout the text. When he realized that his son may have disappeared, Dial left for Costa Rica to unearth the truth. With the assistance of his friends, wife, and an intriguing mixture of officials and locals (who weren't always forthcoming with information), Dial confronted rumors of foul play and continued to sift through his own knowledge of his son's character for clues. The author's guilt at having sparked Cody's interest in the wild mingles with the veteran adventurer's tactical calm in the face of numerous obstacles. His descriptions of Costa Rica's jungles echo with mystery, and, despite his grief, Dial's writing remains measured and cleareyed. When he recounts how a TV crew took a sensational angle for the sake of drama, the author's dismay is palpable. Two years later, Cody's remains were found, and it was determined that his death was an accident, which brought his family some sense of closure. In its emotional restraint and careful descriptions of the wild, this is a slow-burning tribute.A poignant, highly moving memoir of tragic circumstances and a lifelong love of exploring. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
His son's solo trek into the Costa Rican jungle was only supposed to last a handful of days. But when 27-year-old Cody Roman Dial's father realizes it has been 10 days since he was supposed to return, and there has been no word from him, he travels to Costa Rica to search for his son himself. It would be two years before he would learn what happened to his son, and in this powerful memoir of a father's love of adventure and of his child, Dial reflects on whether he should have shielded Cody Roman from the wild journeys they took together. For a boy whose first name was inspired by an Alaskan mountain pass, Cody Roman grew up sharing his father's love for the outdoors. But the puzzle pieces that greet Dial in Costa Rica paint a much different picture, of a young man involved with a notorious drug dealer. Through the twists and turns of his search, Dial must follow his own compass to stay true to the son he knew. A complex and moving memoir.--Bridget Thoreson Copyright 2020 Booklist
Table of Contents
Prologue: Family | p. 1 |
Part I p. 3 | |
Chapter 1 Usibelli | p. 5 |
Chapter 2 10,910 | p. 14 |
Chapter 3 Peggy Mayne | p. 22 |
Chapter 4 The Cornice | p. 30 |
Chapter 5 Cody Roman Dial | p. 36 |
Chapter 6 Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn | p. 42 |
Chapter 7 Umnak | p. 51 |
Chapter 8 Space Captain | p. 60 |
Chapter 9 Borneo | p. 70 |
Chapter 10 Gunung Palung | p. 76 |
Chapter 11 Jungles and Ice | p. 85 |
Chapter 12 Dungeons and Dragons | p. 94 |
Chapter 13 Big Banana | p. 104 |
Part II p. 113 | |
Chapter 14 Mexico | p. 115 |
Chapter 15 Guatemala | p. 122 |
Chapter 16 El Petén | p. 130 |
Chapter 17 Finding Carmelita | p. 138 |
Chapter 18 South to Costa Rica | p. 145 |
Chapter 19 "The Best Map Yet" | p. 152 |
Part III p. 159 | |
Chapter 20 "email, please!" | p. 161 |
Chapter 21 Dondee | p. 169 |
Chapter 22 The Corners | p. 177 |
Chapter 23 Carate | p. 183 |
Chapter 24 The Helicopter | p. 190 |
Chapter 25 Rio Conte | p. 198 |
Chapter 26 Jenkins | p. 205 |
Chapter 27 Zeledón | p. 209 |
Chapter 28 Cruz Roja | p. 215 |
Chapter 29 Whiteout | p. 220 |
Chapter 30 Las Quebraditas | p. 225 |
Chapter 31 Negritos | p. 232 |
Chapter 32 Piedras Blancas | p. 239 |
Chapter 33 Homefront | p. 244 |
Chapter 34 The Fellowship | p. 250 |
Chapter 35 Tree Fall | p. 256 |
Chapter 36 Foul Play | p. 260 |
Chapter 37 Peggy and Jazz | p. 264 |
Chapter 38 Cerro de Oro | p. 269 |
Chapter 39 Roman's Route | p. 274 |
Chapter 40 Rio Claro | p. 280 |
Chapter 41 Back to Alaska | p. 285 |
Chapter 42 TIJAT | p. 291 |
Chapter 43 Carson | p. 298 |
Chapter 44 Kool-Aid | p. 303 |
Chapter 45 Pata Lora | p. 308 |
Chapter 46 A Backpack | p. 315 |
Chapter 47 Discovery | p. 323 |
Chapter 48 Sleeping in the Forest | p. 329 |
Chapter 49 Closure | p. 334 |
Chapter 50 Gather the Ashes | p. 340 |
Epilogue: Meat, Ravens, and Seeds | p. 347 |
Acknowledgments | p. 353 |