the dalton review
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Hi, I’m Anthony Dalton. Thanks for clicking on my brochure.
As you will see, my passion is to write books about ships, the oceans, maritime history,
biographies of explorers, and my own far-ranging adventures. Recently I have ventured
away from non-fiction into the wonderful and exciting realm of fiction. My first novel,
RELENTLESS PURSUIT, is showcased on the opposite page. I hope you enjoy reading it.
Thanks again.
Anthony Dalton.
You can find me at www.anthonydalton.net
I wrote this ecological thriller loosely based on a series of
adventures I experienced while searching for the magnificent
Royal Bengal tigers in the Sundarbans jungle of south-western
Bangladesh. It is the tale of a zoologist and his campaign to save a
man-eating tiger. This story is a land-based JAWS!
From the era of wooden sailing ships and Europe’s golden age of
exploration, the story of famed British navigator Henry Hudson
tells a classic tale of courage, ambition, and treachery on the high
seas. As the leader of four Arctic voyages in the early 17th century,
Hudson searched in vain for a navigable route through the polar
ice to the riches of Asia. In his obsession to succeed, he made
reckless decisions that pushed his crew to the limit, with
disastrous results.
No matter how many adventurers challenge the historic Northwest
Passage, it is unlikely that any will achieve the fame of Sir John
Franklin, the Lion of the Arctic. Sir John Franklin, his crew and two
ships disappeared in the Arctic in 1845. It would be many years
before the first clues to their fate became known.
A collection of 21 stories from the authors life
of adventure and his travels in remote places.
One reviewer said, “This is what a travel book
should be.
The Hudson’s Bay Company steamer Baychimo sailed out of
Vancouver to supply Canada’s Arctic outposts for close to ten
years. In 1931 she became trapped in ice and had to be
abandoned. She drifted throughout the Arctic for the next four
decades.
Manitoba’s Hayes River was one of the major highways of the fur-
trade era. This is the account of my journey on the Hayes River from
Norway House to Oxford House by traditional York boat with a crew
of Cree, and later, from Oxford House to York Factory, on Hudson Bay,
by canoe with five other intrepid travellers – modern-day voyageurs
reliving the past.
ALONE is the story of a near-fatal voyage in a small inflatable
speedboat along the rugged and mostly barren northwest coast
of Alaska. Battling storms, high winds, and monstrous waves, the
author struggled to survive in extreme conditions.
Dewey Soper was the last of the great pioneer naturalists in Canada.
He was also a skilled and meticulous explorer. As a naturalist, he was
a major contributor to the National Museum of Canada, as well as to
the University of Alberta and other museums across the country.
Since the 17th century, hundreds of ships have sailed in the Hudson’s
Bay Company’s fur-trade fleet, servicing far-flung and ice-choked
northern posts, braving the wild rapids of mighty rivers and even
battling past distant Cape Horn. Many of these ships came to grief
on uncharted rocks, and through violent storms.
On cold, windy nights, when rain and snow bring visibility down to
almost zero over the seas off the southwestern coast of Vancouver
Island, one can almost hear the moans and groans and screechings
of dying ships in the Graveyard of the Pacific.
From San Francisco’s fog-bound Golden Gate to the stormy Inside
Passage of British Columbia and Alaska, the magnificent west
coast of North America has taken a deadly toll on shipping since
the early explorers. Here is a collection of tragic tales of ships that
met their end on this treacherous coastline.
Travel back in time aboard gold-rush paddle-steamers on the
Yukon River, rugged sternwheelers on the Saskatchewan and
Red Rivers and luxurious liners on the St. Lawrence to the
decades when steamboats sent the echoes of their shrill
whistles across this vast land.
Watching a polar bear loping across the tundra, stalking a seal or
using its powerful forepaws to drive it through frigid waters from
one large piece of icy, floating real estate to another is like watching
a perfect hunting machine in fluid action.
A collection of 21 stories from my life of adventure, photo-
journalism assignments and other travels in remote places. One
reviewer said, “This is what a travel book should be.”
No one really knew Tristan Jones. He lived sixty-six years and
managed to keep the first forty a mystery. He told us what he
wanted us to believe, and he told the tales so well that we either
believed or suspended disbelief. Tristan was another Jack
London, and escaping into his briny books will always remain a
pleasure. Even Tristan’s most sceptical readers will marvel at the
breath of his deceits, as revealed in this uncompromising yet
admiring biography.
Over the years you can imagine how many photographs I have taken and
whilst I have sold my share in the past, I am now releasing, from my
collection, what I feel you might like to purchase and hang on your wall.
See the back page for an example of my work and I’d be delighted if you
were to visit the websites where my creations are posted.
Anthony Dalton’s
photography, imagery
and artistic creations
are available from
these fine websites.
http://www.saatchiart.com/an
thonydalton
http://fineartamerica.com/pro
files/anthony-dalton.html
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