Adventures with Camera and Pen

By (author): Anthony Dalton

Adventures with Camera and Pen is a collection of tales from Anthony Dalton ‘s nomadic life as an adventurer and photo-journalist. The stories run the gamut from searching for Polar bears on the shores of Hudson Bay through mountain climbing in Western Canada to tracking Royal Bengal tigers in Bangladesh jungle. They depict Dalton’s often hilarious encounters with an eclectic variety of wildlife in the Canadian Arctic, the Falkland Islands and Namibia. He recounts his adventures at sea on tall-ships, and his fumbling attempts at fishing closer to home. As an expedition leader, he documents a difficult journey to remote salt mines in the Sahara north of Timbuktu with a CBC-TV film crew. With Dalton we are privy to conversations held in a rustic tea-house in Afghanistan, and we learn about the problems of travelling in Iran as the Shah began his fall from power. He takes his readers with him on a camel-buying expedition to desert locations in Oman and Saudi Arabia, and describes the difficulties involved in successfully smuggling a fellow Canadian out of Nigeria. In Morocco, Dalton wrestles with other people’s problems after a drug dominated dinner. This is a book for all those who yearn for far away places: the adventurers and the armchair travellers.

AUTHOR

Anthony Dalton

A former expedition leader working in Africa, the Middle East and the Arctic, Anthony Dalton is the author of 13 non-fiction books, co-author of two others and has had his articles published in magazines and newspapers in 20 countries and 9 languages. During the 1990s he travelled extensively in Bangladesh, visiting the country many times over six years. Anthony is Past President of the Canadian Authors Association, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of Literature Wales. He has won numerous awards and honours in Canada for his writing and for his services to other writers. He lives on the coast of British Columbia near Vancouver.

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“Be warned! Once you open this book you’ll be transported to a world of escapes and escapades through the nib of Anthony Dalton’s adventurous pen. Laugh with him. Escape with him. It’s all here along with more than a few characters, chills and thrills that you’ll never forget. ” — Steve Crowhurst, Columnist for Canadian Traveller

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Adventures with Camera and Pen is a collection of tales from Anthony Dalton ‘s nomadic life as an adventurer and photo-journalist. The stories run the gamut from searching for Polar bears on the shores of Hudson Bay through mountain climbing in Western Canada to tracking Royal Bengal tigers in Bangladesh jungle. They depict Dalton’s often hilarious encounters with an eclectic variety of wildlife in the Canadian Arctic, the Falkland Islands and Namibia. He recounts his adventures at sea on tall-ships, and his fumbling attempts at fishing closer to home. As an expedition leader, he documents a difficult journey to remote salt mines in the Sahara north of Timbuktu with a CBC-TV film crew. With Dalton we are privy to conversations held in a rustic tea-house in Afghanistan, and we learn about the problems of travelling in Iran as the Shah began his fall from power. He takes his readers with him on a camel-buying expedition to desert locations in Oman and Saudi Arabia, and describes the difficulties involved in successfully smuggling a fellow Canadian out of Nigeria. In Morocco, Dalton wrestles with other people’s problems after a drug dominated dinner. This is a book for all those who yearn for far away places: the adventurers and the armchair travellers.

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Dimensions:

248 Pages
8.5in * 5.5in * 1in
1lb

Published:

September 15, 2009

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Bookland Press

ISBN:

9780978439521

Book Subjects:

TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure

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Language:

eng

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