Beach Reads Bookshop in Port Dover is offering the opportunity to hear Canadian author and explorer Adam Shoalts share stories and photos from his 3,400-kilometer trek that began at Long Point.
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A St. Williams resident, Shoalts, who has just released Where the Falcon Flies, will also be signing books after his talk on Sunday, November 4, at 2 pm at the Port Dover Community Center located at 801 St. George Street in Port Dover .
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His latest book chronicles his trek by canoe to follow a migrating peregrine falcon from the Great Lakes to the Arctic.
Along the way he encounters challenges such as hunger, encounters with bears, and white-water rapids.
A historian, geographer, archaeologist, and Westaway Explorer-in-Residence at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Shoalts holds a PhD from McMaster University where his research examined the influence of Indigenous oral traditions had on fur traders in the subarctic and Pacific Northwest.
His books Alone Against the North, Ah History of Canada in Ten Maps, Beyond the Trees, and The Whisper on the Night are national bestsellers.
Tickets are $10 at beachreads.ca/events, or admission is free with the purchase of Where the Falcon Flies.
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