Marq de Villiers

Born in South Africa, Marq de Villiers is a veteran Canadian
journalist and the author of eight books on exploration,
history, politics, and travel, including Water: The Fate of
Our Most Precious Resource (winner of the Governor
General’s Award for Non-Fiction), Down the Volga in a Time
of Troubles, and Into Africa: A Journey Through the Ancient
Empires, written with Sheila Hirtle. He has worked as a
foreign correspondent in Moscow and through eastern Europe
and spent many years as Editor and then Publisher of Toronto
Life magazine. More recently he was Editorial Director of
WHERE Magazines International.