Walking My Dog Jane: From Valdez to Prudhoe Bay along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
"I took my dog for a walk last spring," says Ned Rozell "and we didn't come home until fall." In Walking My Dog, Jane, readers travel along with Ned and Jane, his chocolate Labrador, as they walk 800 miles across Alaska along the trans-Alaska pipeline, beginning in the south at Valdez and ending at Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean.\ "I wanted a few things from this walk," Rozell writes. "I wanted the quiet times, alone with my dog. Maybe to learn something about myself, maybe not. I wanted to...
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"She's just a dog."Ned Rozell's fri reminded him often. "I know, I know," he'd answer "but I have a deep emotional attachment to this dog. The way she groans when she plops down, the way she leans into me when I knead her ears in the morning, the way she makes me laugh when she barks at hot air balloons." Why not do something great with a great dog? Rozell wondered. That something great was an aimless summer walking the 800-mile length of the trans-Alaska pipeline-months without clocks without music or TV or driving, a summer of drinking from rivers that he'd only seen on maps, and a summer of meeting interesting people who have retreated (or advanced?) to a life in remote Alaska. WALKING MY DOG, JANE is Rozell's tribute to his adopted state and to the travel partner who carried Rozell's heart, and her own backpack, during a summer spent outside. Christian Science Monitor Rozell is in august company. Some of the most respected authors have produced books about long journeys innocent of formal objectives—people like John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, William Least Heat-Moon, and Bill Bryson. But Rozell's opus can stand with its tail held high among this body of work.
\ Christian Science MonitorRozell is in august company. Some of the most respected authors have produced books about long journeys innocent of formal objectives—people like John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, William Least Heat-Moon, and Bill Bryson. But Rozell's opus can stand with its tail held high among this body of work.\ \ \ \ \ Heartland MagazinePart personal adventure, part natural history, part pipeline history, part history of the settlements he passes through, part dog story and part conversations with the people he meets along the way. It is entirely well written and thoughtful.\ \ \ Publishers WeeklyHere's an adventure tale that, for a change, has nothing to do with human tragedy on Mt. Everest. Walking My Dog, Jane is Alaskan science writer Ned Rozell's account of the summer he spent hiking along the pipeline. Pleasantly understated...Along the way, Rozell gives glimpses into the history, politics, terrain and economy of Alaska and the rugged and quirky people who live there.\ \ \ \ \ Western American LiteratureRozell has managed an entertaining narrative of his great walk, and one that is characterized by a contemplative, unassuming, and inviting literary style.\ \
