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Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Robert Charles Lee’s THROUGH DANGEROUS DOORS Virtual Book Tour January 3 – February 25.

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Through Dangerous Doors

Title: THROUGH DANGEROUS DOORS
Author: Robert Charles Lee
Publisher: Wido / E.L. Marker
Pages: 212
Genre: Memoir

BOOK BLURB:

In a life defined by risk, Robert Charles Lee experiences a poor and free-ranging childhood in the racist South of the 1960s. After his father dies, the family grows dysfunctional. As a result, teen-age Robert seeks sanity and solace by rock climbing solo and driving cars fast. He wins a scholarship and graduates from university, but still seeks to escape the South.

Moving to Alaska and the Western US, Robert works in a series of dangerous and brutal jobs. He meets and marries Linda, who enjoys climbing and skiing difficult mountains as much as he does. Simultaneously, Robert trains in the science of risk to become a respected professional risk scientist.

Robert shares his remarkable story as he guides the reader through a series of dangerous but rewarding doors, culminating in a vivid journey of adventure and risk.

Praise

“Through Dangerous Doors is an engaging and snappily written reflection on a life charted by risk. Like the dangerous mountains he eventually comes to climb, Lee’s need to be on the edge and in the flow guide him on a fascinating ascent up the American socio-economic pyramid, a challenging mountain in itself, and geographically from the lowland South to high country of the North. Small wonder that when Lee and his wife arrive in Calgary, Alberta to live for a decade they immerse themselves in what Lee wisely comes to realize is one of the most dangerous, yet spiritually rewarding mountain ranges in the world – the Canadian Rockies. Lee’s lifelong evaluation, and refinement of, the risk versus reward calculation is educational. And I love the way he calls poppycock when he sees it. Lee shares life lessons that were hard won and valuable to all.” – Barry Blanchard, UIAGM/IFMGA Mountain Guide, author of The Calling – A Life Rocked by Mountains, winner of the Boardman-Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature

“Much more than a book on mountaineering, Robert Charles Lee’s memoir delves deeply into the relationship between risk and reward, exploring the things we can control and those we can’t. His journey of self-discovery has resulted in a thoughtful meditation on the nature of adventure and what makes for a life well lived. Lee’s story will resonate with any readers who have experienced the incomparable satisfaction of challenging themselves while at the same time understanding the wisdom of respecting their limits.” –Scott Zesch, author of “The Captured,” winner of the TCU Texas Book Award

“This is a memoir like few others, in that the author is intent on beseeching his readers not to follow the example of his own life. The story he tells shows that this is very good advice indeed, but nevertheless his tale of improbable escapes from one looming disaster after another is both instructive and entertaining.” William Leiss, Queen’s University, author of: In the Chamber of Risks: Understanding Risk Controversies, Mad Cows and Mother’s Milk: The Perils of Poor Risk Communication, and Risk and Responsibility

“In this engaging and very readable memoir, Robert Lee reminds us that life IS risk. Humans only continue to learn, grow and evolve through facing and conquering risks. Whether the risks are involuntary or voluntary, Lee aptly emphasizes that the key to survival, or even thriving, is how we choose to understand and manage those risks. While Lee’s recounting of his numerous climbing risk adventures reflects his personal approach to risk and risk management, his stories will resonate strongly with anyone who seeks the challenge and stimulation of being a ‘risk taker’. This book will ultimately make you examine more closely your own life in relation to the risks you choose or don’t choose to undertake.” – Cindy Jardine, University of the Fraser Valley, world record skydiver 

“As autobiographies like Educated and The Glass Castle have taught us, growing up through hardship can be remarkably annealing. So too in this disarmingly honest memoir, where Lee relates his annealed response. He adeptly strings us along his extraordinary lifepath from childhood until retirement using an idiosyncratic lens: A meditation on risk serves as Lee’s through-line, one informed by his career in risk analysis. Sit and enjoy the windfall of a raconteur relaying how he and his fellow travelers have encountered and responded to risks. Many encounters, like his vivid recounts of ice and mountain climbing, are quite intense. We get a taste of life as a forester, psychedelic-explorer, musician, academic, blessed husband and alpinist.  Some entrancing events, nicely infused with a humble `stock-taking’ of the cards that were dealt, and the choices made. An extraordinary story that resonates beyond risk.” – Kevin Brand, University of Ottawa

““Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” wrote Helen Keller in her passageway focused book The Open Door. Metaphorical passageways hurtle us in and out of the risky exploits of Mr. Lee in Through Dangerous Doors. Climbing on a glacier or rappelling down a mountain, Lee shows us the thrill of daring adventure. But risk is not the goal, it is the price paid for adventure – and sometimes that price is too high. Lee helps us see that managing risk, sometimes with tools or technology and sometimes by knowing when to say no, is the key to continuing to be able to pass through new doors.” –  George Gray, George Washington University, co-author of Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What’s Really Safe and What’s Really Dangerous in the World Around You

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MEET THE AUTHOR

Robert Charles Lee

Robert Charles Lee is a retired risk scientist with over twenty-five years of academic and applied risk analysis, decision analysis, and risk management experience in a wide variety of contexts. He has authored over one hundred peer-reviewed scientific works, as well as over one hundred technical reports for industry and government agencies. Prior to the professional risk work he worked in laboratories a bit, but otherwise was a manual laborer until he reckoned that he could use his brain for a living.

Robert has a BS in Botany, a BS in Science Education, an MS in Environmental Health, and a Certificate in Integrated Business Administration. He is ABD (all but dissertation) in a Toxicology PhD program. He is an ordained Minister and has an honorary Doctorate of Metaphysics from the Universal Life Church and is a Member of the Nova Scotia L’Ordre du Bon Temps, or Order of the Good Time.

He was born in North Carolina and lived there for over twenty years, but has since lived in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, and Alberta. He was also homeless for a time while a laborer in the Western United States. He currently resides in Colorado.

Robert and his wife Linda have climbed hundreds of technical and non-technical mountain, rock, ice, and canyon routes, hiked thousands of miles in several countries, and skied many miles of vertical feet at resorts and in the backcountry.

Robert is an avid amateur photographer, largely of outdoor subjects. He is a musician who plays hand, stick, and mallet percussion, and who can sing, but rarely does for unclear reasons. He is an amateur sound engineer and producer and has recorded more than a thousand written and improvisational instrumental pieces with other musicians to date. He was trying to learn to relax in retirement, but then he discovered non-technical writing. He has written a memoir and a poetry collection and is working on short stories.

Through Dangerous Doors is his latest book.

Visit his website at https://robertcharleslee.com or follow him on Goodreads.

Blog Tour Highlights 2

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Monday, January 3

⭐PUYB Virtual Book Club⭐Pump Up Your Book Virtual Book Tour Kick Off⭐Through Dangerous Doors by Robert Charles Lee 

Tuesday, January 4

First Chapter: Through Dangerous Doors by Robert Charles Lee | Pump Up Your Book! :: Virtual Book Publicity Tours

Wednesday, January 5

Lee Robert Charles – Through Dangerous Doors – B for Bookreview 

Thursday, January 6

📚 10 Things You Might Not Know About Robert Charles Lee – Blogging Authors

Friday, January 7

Word Magic: All About Books: The Inspiration Behind Through Dangerous Doors by Robert Charles Lee 

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Monday, January 10

The Story Behind the Book: The Story Behind Through Dangerous Doors by Robert Charles Lee

Tuesday, January 11

The Literary Nook: Book Watch: THROUGH DANGEROUS DOORS by Robert Charles Lee 

Wednesday, January 12

Virtual Book Tour: THROUGH DANGEROUS DOORS by Robert Charles Lee | The Avid Reader 

Thursday, January 13

As the Page Turns…: 📙 MEMOIR BOOK FEATURE: THROUGH DANGEROUS DOORS BY ROBERT CHARLES LEE

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Monday, January 17

Hooked From Page One: ✍The First Page & Interview: THROUGH DANGEROUS DOORS by Robert Charles Lee

Tuesday, January 18

Book Cover Junkie: ❀New MEMOIR Alert❀: Through Dangerous Doors by Robert Charles Lee

Wednesday, January 19

In the Spotlight: Through Closed Doors by Robert Charles Lee | Confessions of an Eccentric Bookaholic

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Monday, January 24

📚 A Bookish Chat with ‘Through Dangerous Doors’ Robert Charles Lee – The Writer’s Life eMagazine

Thursday, January 27

The Book Connection…: Book Spotlight: Through Dangerous Doors by Robert Charles Lee 

Friday, January 28

5 Things You Should Know About Through Dangerous Doors: A Life At Risk by Robert Charles Lee – Literarily Speaking

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Tuesday, February 1

I’m Shelf-ish: ⭐INTERVIEW⭐ROBERT CHARLES LEE AUTHOR OF THROUGH DANGEROUS DOORS

Wednesday, February 2

In the Spotlight: Through Dangerous Doors by Robert Charles Lee | the book rack 

Thursday, February 3

Tour: Through Dangerous Doors – The Faerie Review

Friday, February 4

The Book Connection…: Interview with Robert Charles Lee, Author of Through Dangerous Doors 

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Monday, February 7

The Literary Nook: Q&A: Robert Charles Lee, Author of Through Dangerous Doors: A Life at Risk 

Tuesday, February 8

Read the First Chapter of Through Dangerous Doors: A Life at Risk by Robert Charles Lee | As The Pages Turn

Thursday, February 10

Book Bloggin’ Princess: 🏰 Author Interview Featuring Robert Charles Lee, Author THROUGH DANGEROUS DOORS 

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Monday, February 14

My Book Launch: Book Launch Q&A: Robert Charles Lee Author of Through Dangerous Doors 

Tuesday, February 15

NEW MEMOIR RELEASE ALERT! {WHAT’S ON YOUR KINDLE} THROUGH DANGEROUS DOORS: A LIFE AT RISK BY ROBERT CHARLES LEE 

Wednesday, February 16

Read My First Chapter: Read A Chapter: Through Dangerous Doors by Robert Charles Lee

My Bookish Pleasures: 📖Authors To Watch: Robert Charles Lee Author of Through Dangerous Doors 

Thursday, February 17

Book Excerpt: Through Dangerous Doors by Robert Charles Lee | The Dark Phantom Review 

Nuttin’ But Books: ❤Inside the Pages: Through Dangerous Doors by Robert Charles Lee 

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Monday, February 21

Through Dangerous Doors by Robert Charles Lee – Review – A Hippie’s Bookshelf 

Friday, February 25

First Chapter Review: THROUGH DANGEROUS DOORS by Robert Charles Lee – Literarily Speaking

Dear Reader, Love Author: Dear Reader, Love Robert Charles Lee 

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