Pierre Berton
Pierre Berton was one of Canada’s most popular and prolific authors. From narrative histories and popular culture, to picture and coffee table books to anthologies, to stories for children to readable, historical works for youth, many of his fifty books are now Canadian classics.
Born in 1920 and raised in the Yukon, Pierre Berton worked in Klondike mining camps during his university years. He spent four years in the army, rising from private to captain/instructor at the Royal Military College in Kingston. He spent his early newspaper career in Vancouver, where at 21 he was the youngest city editor on any...
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For the Love of History
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-66089-1 (0-385-66089-8)
October 11, 2005 | $24.95
Featuring some of Canada’s best known and most admired historians, this collection will appeal to Pierre Berton fans and history lovers everywhere.
For the Love of History features the contributions of outstanding writers who have won recognition for the creative and colourful ways in which they have popularized Canadian history. Including a...
Foreword by Pierre Berton
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-66089-1 (0-385-66089-8)
October 11, 2005 | $24.95
Featuring some of Canada’s best known and most admired historians, this collection will appeal to Pierre Berton fans and history lovers everywhere.
For the Love of History features the contributions of outstanding writers who have won recognition for the creative and colourful ways in which they have popularized Canadian history. Including a...
The Wild Frontier
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-66189-8 (0-385-66189-4)
September 27, 2005 | $24.95
Canada’s wild frontier — a land unsettled and unknown, a land of appalling obstacles and haunting beauty — comes to life through seven remarkable individuals, including John Jewitt, the young British seaman who became a slave to the Nootka Indians; Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, the eccentric missionary; Sam Steele, the most famous...
Written by Pierre Berton
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-66189-8 (0-385-66189-4)
September 27, 2005 | $24.95
Canada’s wild frontier — a land unsettled and unknown, a land of appalling obstacles and haunting beauty — comes to life through seven remarkable individuals, including John Jewitt, the young British seaman who became a slave to the Nootka Indians; Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, the eccentric missionary; Sam Steele, the most famous...
Prisoners of the North
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-66047-1 (0-385-66047-2)
May 17, 2005 | $24.95
Canada’s master storyteller returns to the North to chronicle the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial characters.
Canada’s master storyteller returns to the North to bring history to life. Prisoners of the North tells the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial characters whose adventures in Canada’s frozen wilderness are no...
Written by Pierre Berton
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-66047-1 (0-385-66047-2)
May 17, 2005 | $24.95
Canada’s master storyteller returns to the North to chronicle the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial characters.
Canada’s master storyteller returns to the North to bring history to life. Prisoners of the North tells the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial characters whose adventures in Canada’s frozen wilderness are no...
The Joy of Writing
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Reference
978-0-385-65998-7 (0-385-65998-9)
December 16, 2003 | $21.00
Drawing on his fifty years as an award-winning journalist and author of some of the finest books on Canadian history, Pierre Berton has written a witty and practical guide for writers. With almost every book a bestseller, clearly this writer knows what it takes to succeed in the publishing world. From...
Written by Pierre Berton
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Reference
978-0-385-65998-7 (0-385-65998-9)
December 16, 2003 | $21.00
Drawing on his fifty years as an award-winning journalist and author of some of the finest books on Canadian history, Pierre Berton has written a witty and practical guide for writers. With almost every book a bestseller, clearly this writer knows what it takes to succeed in the publishing world. From...
Cats I Have Known and Loved
Hardcover | 176 pages | Doubleday Canada | Nature - Cats
978-0-385-65938-3 (0-385-65938-5)
October 15, 2002 | $24.95
Who would have guessed that one of the great historian’s passions in life is cats? Over the course of his eighty-two years, and from his birthplace in Dawson City, Yukon, to his home in Kleinburg, Ontario, Berton has known and loved many cats. In this charming collection of stories, he has...
Written by Pierre Berton
Hardcover | 176 pages | Doubleday Canada | Nature - Cats
978-0-385-65938-3 (0-385-65938-5)
October 15, 2002 | $24.95
Who would have guessed that one of the great historian’s passions in life is cats? Over the course of his eighty-two years, and from his birthplace in Dawson City, Yukon, to his home in Kleinburg, Ontario, Berton has known and loved many cats. In this charming collection of stories, he has...
Marching as to War
Trade Paperback | 640 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-25819-7 (0-385-25819-4)
September 24, 2002 | $26.95
“I have called this period Canada’s Turbulent Years – turbulent not only because of the battles we fought on the African veldt, the ravaged meadows of Flanders, the forbidding spine of Italy, and the conical hills of Korea, but turbulent in other ways. These were Canada’s formative years, when she resembled...
Written by Pierre Berton
Trade Paperback | 640 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-25819-7 (0-385-25819-4)
September 24, 2002 | $26.95
“I have called this period Canada’s Turbulent Years – turbulent not only because of the battles we fought on the African veldt, the ravaged meadows of Flanders, the forbidding spine of Italy, and the conical hills of Korea, but turbulent in other ways. These were Canada’s formative years, when she resembled...
My Country
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-65928-4 (0-385-65928-8)
September 17, 2002 | $22.95
Berton brings the past alive with true stories of mystery and romance, tragedy and heroism, from the piracy of Bill Johnston, scourge of the St. Lawrence, to the weird saga of Brother XII and his mystic cult on Vancouver Island.
Written by Pierre Berton
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-65928-4 (0-385-65928-8)
September 17, 2002 | $22.95
Berton brings the past alive with true stories of mystery and romance, tragedy and heroism, from the piracy of Bill Johnston, scourge of the St. Lawrence, to the weird saga of Brother XII and his mystic cult on Vancouver Island.
Niagara
Trade Paperback | 504 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-65930-7 (0-385-65930-X)
September 10, 2002 | $22.95
Full of heroes and villains, eccentrics and daredevils, scientists, and power brokers, Niagara has a contemporary resonance: how a great natural wonder created both the industrial heartland of southern Ontario and the worst pollution on the continent.
Written by Pierre Berton
Trade Paperback | 504 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-65930-7 (0-385-65930-X)
September 10, 2002 | $22.95
Full of heroes and villains, eccentrics and daredevils, scientists, and power brokers, Niagara has a contemporary resonance: how a great natural wonder created both the industrial heartland of southern Ontario and the worst pollution on the continent.
The Promised Land
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-65929-1 (0-385-65929-6)
September 10, 2002 | $22.95
After the pioneers described in The National Dream, The Last Spike and Klondike came the settlers — a million people who filled a thousand miles of prairie in a single generation.
Written by Pierre Berton
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-65929-1 (0-385-65929-6)
September 10, 2002 | $22.95
After the pioneers described in The National Dream, The Last Spike and Klondike came the settlers — a million people who filled a thousand miles of prairie in a single generation.
The Secret World of Og
Trade Paperback | 160 pages | Doubleday Canada | Juvenile Fiction
978-0-385-65911-6 (0-385-65911-3)
May 14, 2002 | $24.95
The Canadian Classic, written by Pierre Berton and illustrated by his daughter, Patsy is now a 26 episode animated children’s series on CBC television beginning Saturday, September 9, 2006. Berton often cited The Secret World of Og as his favourite of his forty-seven books. It has sold more than 200,000 copies...
Written by Pierre Berton
Trade Paperback | 160 pages | Doubleday Canada | Juvenile Fiction
978-0-385-65911-6 (0-385-65911-3)
May 14, 2002 | $24.95
The Canadian Classic, written by Pierre Berton and illustrated by his daughter, Patsy is now a 26 episode animated children’s series on CBC television beginning Saturday, September 9, 2006. Berton often cited The Secret World of Og as his favourite of his forty-seven books. It has sold more than 200,000 copies...
The Arctic Grail
Trade Paperback | 672 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-65845-4 (0-385-65845-1)
October 9, 2001 | $24.95
Scores of nineteenth-century expeditions battled savage cold, relentless ice and winter darkness in pursuit of two great prizes: the quest for the elusive Passage linking the Atlantic and the Pacific and the international race to reach the North Pole. Pierre Berton's #1 best-selling book brings to life the great explorers: the...
Written by Pierre Berton
Trade Paperback | 672 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-65845-4 (0-385-65845-1)
October 9, 2001 | $24.95
Scores of nineteenth-century expeditions battled savage cold, relentless ice and winter darkness in pursuit of two great prizes: the quest for the elusive Passage linking the Atlantic and the Pacific and the international race to reach the North Pole. Pierre Berton's #1 best-selling book brings to life the great explorers: the...
The Great Depression
Trade Paperback | 560 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-65843-0 (0-385-65843-5)
October 9, 2001 | $24.95
Over 1.5 million Canadians were on relief, one in five was a public dependant, and 70,000 young men travelled like hoboes. Ordinary citizens were rioting in the streets, but their demonstrations met with indifference, and dissidents were jailed. Canada emerged from the Great Depression a different nation.
The most searing decade in...
Written by Pierre Berton
Trade Paperback | 560 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-65843-0 (0-385-65843-5)
October 9, 2001 | $24.95
Over 1.5 million Canadians were on relief, one in five was a public dependant, and 70,000 young men travelled like hoboes. Ordinary citizens were rioting in the streets, but their demonstrations met with indifference, and dissidents were jailed. Canada emerged from the Great Depression a different nation.
The most searing decade in...
Klondike
Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-65844-7 (0-385-65844-3)
October 9, 2001 | $24.95
With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We meet Soapy Smith, dictator of Skagway; Swiftwater...
Written by Pierre Berton
Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-65844-7 (0-385-65844-3)
October 9, 2001 | $24.95
With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We meet Soapy Smith, dictator of Skagway; Swiftwater...
Vimy
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-65842-3 (0-385-65842-7)
October 9, 2001 | $24.95
One chill Easter dawn in 1917, a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France went over the top of a muddy scarp knows as Vimy Ridge. Within hours, they held in their grasp what had eluded both British and French armies in over two...
Written by Pierre Berton
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-65842-3 (0-385-65842-7)
October 9, 2001 | $24.95
One chill Easter dawn in 1917, a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France went over the top of a muddy scarp knows as Vimy Ridge. Within hours, they held in their grasp what had eluded both British and French armies in over two...
Flames Across the Border
Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-65838-6 (0-385-65838-9)
August 14, 2001 | $24.95
The Canada–U.S. border was in flames as the War of 1812 continued. York's parliament buildings were on fire, Niagara-on-the-Lake burned to the ground and Buffalo lay in ashes. Even the American capital of Washington, far to the south, was put to the torch. The War of 1812 had become one of...
Written by Pierre Berton
Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-65838-6 (0-385-65838-9)
August 14, 2001 | $24.95
The Canada–U.S. border was in flames as the War of 1812 continued. York's parliament buildings were on fire, Niagara-on-the-Lake burned to the ground and Buffalo lay in ashes. Even the American capital of Washington, far to the south, was put to the torch. The War of 1812 had become one of...
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