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Born in England in 1956, Dennison Berwick emigrated to Canada in 1980. Since then he has walked the entire length of the river Ganges in India ( the 3000 km walk is recounted in "A Walk Along the Ganges") and travelled extensively in the Amazon and (journeys published as "Amazon" and "Savages: The Life and Killing of the Yanomami"). He is also editor of the "Canadian Retreat Guide", a guide to more than 140 monasteries, retreat centres etc. in Canada. He spent several weeks helping people in the isolated villages on the west coast of Aceh, Sumatra, following the devastating tsunami in December 2004 and is now working on a novel inspired by those experience.
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Selected works
1986 "A Walk Along the Ganges" published. ISBN 0-8364-5916-4
1990 "Amazon" published. Hutchinson, London, 1990 ISBN 0-09-173490-8
1992 "Savages, the Life & Killing of the Yanomami" published. ISBN 0-340-57868-8
1996 "Directory of Retreats in Canada", 1st edition, published.
1998 "Canadian Retreat Guide", 2nd edition, published. ISBN 0-9680541-1-0
2000 onwards work in progress, “An Earth Made of Glass”
2005 work in progress A Captain of Fools
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1983 to 1984 Solo pilgrimage 3,000 km along banks of River Ganges, India.
1980 Emigrated to Canada.
1976 to 1978 Reporter and columnist on Telegraph & Argus, Bradford, England.
1976 Overland to Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan.
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