About the Author

John Dowd has been paddling kayaks for more than forty years and has led many expeditions. He was a publisher of the sport’s first magazine, Sea Kayaker, and is the former owner of a specialty kayak shop. Dowd lives in Nanaimo, BC.

Freya Hoffmeister is a world-renowned expedition kayaker. She has circumnavigated Iceland, New Zealand and most recently Australia on a solo and mostly unsupported trip chronicled in the book Fearless: One Woman, One Kayak, One Continent. She is currently in the middle of a solo circumnavigation of South America.