This image is the cover for the book The Timber Pirate, Classics To Go

The Timber Pirate, Classics To Go

Excerpt: "Night’s sable curtain was soon to fall on the short-lived drama of a Winter day in the Laurentians. The departing sub-arctic sun, in its last pale glory, sent up from the omnipresent whiteness myriads of glistening beams that stabbed the eyes like leaping darts of fire. Of sounds there was oppressive absence. Not even a vagrant breeze sighed in the tree-tops; but at irregular intervals the intense stillness was smitten by the lugubrious “Spon-n-n-n-g!” of some aged tree splitting open to the heart where freezing moisture expanded in its crevices. All life and warmth seemed utterly exterminated in the pre-twilight calm save for the distant Monarch of Day slowly receding from his stark white world of desolation."

Charles Christopher Jenkins

Charles Christopher Jenkins was born on September 17, 1882, in Hamilton, Ontario. At the time of his wedding in 1908, Jenkins was working as city editor of the Chatham Daily Planet. In the early 1920s (perhaps when the Planet ceased publication in 1922), he moved on to the general interest magazine Maclean's, based in Toronto, and from there to the Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper. In addition to his journalistic work, Jenkins wrote fiction.

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