Books written by Pierre Berton
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Farewell to the Twentieth Century: A Compendium of the Absurd
But the lecherous Bond apparently doesn't believe that “ no ” actually means “ No ! ” He flung her onto a pile of straw , and though she attempted to fight him off , he had his way with her . Thanks to more admirable sleuthing by ...
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The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885
The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the continent in just five years — exactly half the time stipulated in the contract.
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Why We Act Like Canadians
In this challenging book, written as a series of open letters to an American friend, Pierre Berton reaches into his profound knowledge of the country’s history and geography to dissect, praise, explain and occasionally criticize the ...
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The Impossible Railway: The Building of the Canadian Pacific
The Impossible Railway: The Building of the Canadian Pacific
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The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909
Pierre Berton, who won his first Governor General's award for The Mysterious North, here again gives us an important and fascinating history that reads like a novel as he examines the historic events of the golden age of Arctic exploration.
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The Secret World of Og
Accompanied by their fearless pets, the children descend through a secret trapdoor into a strange underground world of mushrooms, whose green inhabitants know only one word: "OG!" Of his forty-seven books, this is Pierre Berton's personal ...
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Niagara: A History of the Falls
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 ...
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Canada Under Siege
Relates how American forces unsuccessfully attempted to capture Canada during the War of 1812, with details on battles at York, Fort George, Stoney Creek, and Beaver Dams.
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The Klondike Fever: The Life And Death Of The Last Great Gold Rush
“Absolutely first-rate.”—The New Yorker This thrilling story is at once first-rate history and first-rate entertainment.
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Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899
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.
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Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899
The Klondike story is a wild interlude between the epic tales of western development -- the building of the railway and the mass settlement of the plains. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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Vimy
On Easter Monday 1917 with a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France seized and held the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front—the muddy scarp of Vimy Ridge.
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Pierre Berton's War of 1812
To commemorate the bi-centenary of the War of 1812, Anchor Canada brings together Pierre Berton's two groundbreaking books on the subject.
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The Wild Frontier: More Tales from the Remarkable Past
Spanning more than two centuries and four thousand miles, this book demonstrates how our frontier resembles no other and how for better and for worse it has shaped our distinctive sense of Canada.
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The National Dream: The Great Railway, 1871-1881
The National Dream is above all else the story of people.
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The Secret World of Og
The summer adventure of five children takes them into a strange country peopled by little green men.
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The Great Depression: 1929-1939
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.
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The Great Lakes
A travel book which focuses on the Great Lakes area. It includes a brief history of the Great Lakes since European settlement and it is illustrated with black and white...
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Vimy
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.
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Drifting Home: A Family's Voyage of Discovery Down the Wild Yukon River
Through a unique blending of nostalgia, his deep love of the land and his unrivalled knowledge of the history and the area, Pierre Berton has created this magical tale.