![]() ![]() Eight years later, when they booked the trip to Iceland and Greenland that would provide the action for “Meltdown,” what began as a once-in-a-lifetime bonding excursion had turned into an annual father-son tradition, one that typically devolved into farce, frequently surrounding Ed’s fondness for being nude. Wells and his father, Ed Tower, a professor emeritus of economics at Duke University, embarked on their first journey together, to the Galápagos Islands, in 2000, the year Ed was diagnosed with lymphoma. In Wells Tower’s family history, there has been plenty of that. Nothing says poignant like a father-son adventure: Dad showing Junior how to build a fire, set up a tent, or perhaps paddle a canoe.
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