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The Adventurer's Son A Memoir

Roman Dial

NATIONAL BESTSELLER 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, poac...

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The MeatEater Podcast

It tells the heartbreaking story of a father's search for his son, who went missing in the Costa Rican jungle, exploring the complexities of raising an adventurous child and the agonizing experience of losing him.

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A brave and marvelous book, a page turner that will rip your heart out.

— Episode: Ep. 204: It Should Be Difficult to Get L...

Episode: Ep. 204: It Should Be Difficult to Get Lost Foreve...

It tells the heartbreaking story of a father's search for his son, who went missing in the Costa Rican jungle, exploring the complexities of raising an adventurous child and the agonizing experience of losing him.

"

A brave and marvelous book, a page turner that will rip your heart out.

Looking for my son who went missing in Costa Rica.

A heartbreaking story about raising an outdoor son and then losing him in the jungle and trying to find him.

It's like being an alcoholic, I think, you know, like an alcoholic says I'm not drinking anymore, but the next weekend they drink anyway.

ninety nine point nine nine percent sure that he died either from a snake bite or a fallen tree

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