Anthony Dalton
Author
Anthony Dalton is an author and public speaker. He writes non-fiction books about the sea and about exploration. His illustrated non-fiction articles on diverse subjects have been published in magazines and newspapers in twenty countries and ten languages. As a public speaker he has appeared at conventions, conferences and meetings across Canada, the USA, and in the United Kingdom.
A British-born Canadian adventurer and author he is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Explorers Club. His expeditions have taken him across the Sahara many times, through the deserts of the Middle East, into the mountainous terrain of Afghanistan, on dangerous Arctic waters, and canoeing wilderness rivers in northern Canada. He was the organizer and leader of a CBC-TV filming expedition to the Saharan salt mines of Taoudenit in northern Mali, and participated in a television documentary on great Canadian rivers for the Discovery Channel.
Magazine assignments have taken him to the Australian Outback, the Falkland Islands, Namibia, Vanuatu, New Zealand, Bahrain, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, among others. Plus, Dalton has tracked Royal Bengal tigers on foot through the dense Sundarbans jungle of Bangladesh, survived a small-boat capsize in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska's north-west coast, and sailed as crew on the mighty windjammers of the Russian and Ukrainian tall-ship fleets. Dalton is National President of the Canadian Authors Association, as well as past President of the CAA Vancouver Branch, and a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers.
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Updated: February 19, 2010