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Charles Wilkins

Charles Wilkins is the author of fifteen books, including The Circus at the Edge of the Earth (about his travels with the Great Wallenda Circus), Walk to New York (about his 2002 walk from Thunder Bay to New York City), and In the Land of Long Fingernails (a memoir about a summer he spent working in a large Toronto cemetery). He is the co-author of two international bestsellers, Paddle to the Amazon and After the Applause.

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More books by Charles Wilkins

book cover - In the Land of Long Fingernails

In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger’s Memoir