{"product_id":"dudeville-9798218597849","title":"Dudeville","description":"\u003cp\u003eImagine Huck Finn \"lighting out for the territories\" 150 years later, this time as a late-30s corporate dropout turned backcountry snowboarder and mountain climber. \u003cem\u003eDudeville \u003c\/em\u003eis a coming-of-middle-age adventure novel, set in and all around small-town Colorado during the outdoor sports explosion of the 1990s\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003eInspired by a wide and wild range of influences-from Thoreau, Whitman, Muir and Twain, to Jack Kerouac, Edward Abbey and Warren Miller-\u003cem\u003eDudeville\u003c\/em\u003e is equal parts extreme sports tale, male bonding romp, and reluctant love story, a sensuous, lyrical, exuberant exploration of the American West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDudeville\u003c\/em\u003e's author, Jonah Das, is the editor of \u003cem\u003eIllahee Rising\u003c\/em\u003e, a non-profit geographic information service that identifies lost and neglected Native American historic and cultural sites for inclusion on maps and in the historic record. He wrote \u003cem\u003eDudeville\u003c\/em\u003e after fleeing a corporate job \"back East\" for a small town in Colorado, and a life of mountaineering, backcountry snowboarding \u0026amp; skiing, hang-gliding, and river running. He currently lives and works with his wife on a native tree and plant farm on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eDudeville\u003c\/em\u003e: \"From this summit, the horizon seesaws open into an electric blue dream of Colorado sky. The adolescent swagger and brawn of the Rockies is nothing like the stooped and rounded hills back east. Spiked with mammoth formations of rock and ice, this vast, continental cacophony is the very roof of the world, pushed skyward by geologic time while collapsing under its own weight. I drop in, and surf off the wind-scoured edge, working the margin between transcendent bliss and utter catastrophe, a controlled fury exploding from my core into arcing snowboard turns as I crisscross the fall-line and dissolve into gravity...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bayamet Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798218597849\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d","brand":"Jonah Das","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51894805332149,"sku":"9798218597849","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8424c596-33be-43e3-bbdc-3b585786a65c.jpg?v=1760491332","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dudeville-9798218597849","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}