Lost & Found: Reflections on Travel, Career, Love and Family

by Dustin Grinnell

Overview

Using the same adventurous spirit that took him all over the world, a writer looks inward to embark on a journey of self-discovery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781803741840
Publisher:	Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	12/11/2023
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dustin Grinnell is an award-winning writer and adventurer who has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, hitchhiked through New Zealand, driven a motorcycle across the U.S., and backpacked through Britain, Spain, France, Costa Rica, and China. His expeditions have been featured as essays in magazines, journals, and the Sunday travel sections of newspapers such as The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. He has won two Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing and an honorable mention from the North American Travel Journalists Association Awards Competition. Grinnell is also the author of three novels and a short story collection. He holds an MFA in fiction from the Solstice MFA Program, an MS in physiology from Penn State, and a BA in psychobiology from Wheaton College (MA). He grew up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and now lives in Winthrop, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Contents: Lost – A Sudden Stab of Murky Suspicion – Up Fever Slope – The Dizziness of Freedom – A Taste of Glory – A Lesson in Safety – Missing Paris – The Hate Game – Departing Down the Middle – Departed – In Defense of Quixote – Finding My Sleep in China – Backed up in China – Walkabout Love – Letters from Dad – Hoedown at McDonald’s – Doubt Isn’t Sexy – Keeping the Channel Open – Fake It ’til You Make It – Found – The Gift of Pain – A Morning Dose of Awe – The Stick – How to Fix a Bluey Heart – Corporate Disobedience – Forest Medicine – The Language of My Father – Learning to Love My Fate.