Walking My Dog Jane: From Valdez to Prudhoe Bay along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline »

"She's just a dog."Ned Rozell's fri<%END%> 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.