Greystone Books

Charles Wilkins

Charles Wilkins wrestled Don Starkell�s mountainous diary into the classic work of adventure travel Paddle to the Amazon, praised by the New York Times Book Review as �a model expeditionary journal.� He is the winner of three National Magazine Awards and has been a finalist for the Writers� Trust Non-Fiction Prize, among other awards. His acclaimed nonfiction includes The Circus at the Edge of the Earth and Walk to New York, and he is the co-author, with Gordie Howe, of the bestseller After the Applause. He divides his time between Thunder Bay and Muskoka, Ontario.