Elling Halvorson’s Memoir “Detours to Destiny” Will Be Displayed at the L.A. Times Festival of Books

The independently published book “Detours to Destiny: A Memoir” (2018) by engineering trailblazer and business genius Elling Halvorson will be displayed at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on October 3-4, 2020 at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
 
The L.A. Times Festival of Books is the largest book festival in the U.S., attracting approximately 150,000 visitors. Since the first edition in 1996, it has become an essential part of Los Angeles’ cultural and educational scene. The annual, free public festival holds author panels, book signing sessions, storytelling, musical performances, culinary classes, and more. Aside from books, new and original works of art and photography will also be on display.
 
Halvorson’s memoir “Detours to Destiny” will be displayed by ReadersMagnet at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2020.
 
Halvroson was the force behind many high-risk and seemingly impossible construction projects in some of the deepest parts of the Grand Canyon. The book does not only detail his engineering pursuits and technological advancement. It also talks about his personal life, as well as the challenges he had overcome and his personal relationship with God. Readers will get to know the author not only as an engineer and passionate entrepreneur but also as a man of adventure and initiative – and of God.
 
Be inspired by Elling Halvorson’s engineering feat and his story of faith. Order “Detours to Destiny: A Memoir” today on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
 
Readers are encouraged to visit the author’s website https://ellingbhalvorson.com/
  
Detours to Destiny: A Memoir
Author | Elling Halvorson, with Diana Savage and Gerald D. Gawne
Published date | October 31, 2018
Publisher | Independently published
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Author Bio
 
After graduating from Oregon’s Willamette University in 1955 with a degree in economics and engineering, Elling Halvorson founded a company that specialized in construction projects in difficult locations. That led to him building a freshwater pipeline from the North to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in the early 1960s, using helicopters to lower supplies to the Canyon floor. Realizing the bigger opportunity, he began selling Canyon air tours in 1965. Today, he’s the chairman of Papillon Airways Inc., the world’s largest air-tour provider, and has built up more than a dozen other family-owned businesses. Elling and his wife, Barbara, raised four sons and a daughter and have eight grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. The Halvorsons are also active philanthropists.
 

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