Deromanticizing Swashbucklers

Charles Wilkins’s book Walk to New York: A Journey Out of the Wilds of Canada (Penguin, 2004) describes a hike he took in 2002 from Thunder Bay, Ontario, on the north side of Lake Superior, to New York City. His book Little Ship of fools, about rowing across the Atlantic with a crew of 16, will be published in 2013.