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Berton, Pierre 1920-2004

Overview
Works: 287 works in 757 publications in 10 languages and 25,541 library holdings
Roles: Host, Interviewer, Narrator
Classifications: he2810.c2, 385.0971
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14 editions published between and 2001 in English and held by 1,539 libraries worldwide
Examines the nineteenth century quest for the Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic and the Pacific, and the North Pole.
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13 editions published between and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,489 libraries worldwide
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13 editions published between and 2009 in English and held by 1,234 libraries worldwide
"Niagara Falls has always been more than just a natural wonder. The sublime beauty and awesome power of the great cataract have made it a magnet for statesmen and stuntmen, poets and poseurs, ordinary sightseers and exceptional visionaries. This book traces the history of the Falls and those drawn to it: industrialists who come to harness its power, movie stars who come to garner publicity, photographers who come to test new techniques, and honeymooners who come to start new lives. As Pierre Berton shows, the history of the Falls is a chronicle filled with exceptional characters: Charles Blondin, the French daredevil who crossed the Falls on a high wire; John Roebling, the engineer who spanned the Niagara gorge before he built the Brooklyn Bridge; Henry Perky, the inventor of shredded wheat; and Robert Moses, the 'Power Broker' himself."--Jacket.
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12 editions published between and 1991 in English and French and held by 1,100 libraries worldwide
The story of the Dionne quintuplets.
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5 editions published between and 1972 in English and held by 1,013 libraries worldwide
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6 editions published between and 1981 in English and French and held by 979 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published between and 1984 in English and held by 922 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 881 libraries worldwide
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6 editions published between and 2005 in English and held by 680 libraries worldwide
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24 editions published between and 2002 in English and French and held by 638 libraries worldwide
Account of a journey by the author and his family down the Yukon River retracing the Klondike goldrush route of 1898 from Lake Bennett to Dawson.
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22 editions published between and 1989 in English and held by 602 libraries worldwide
Personal memories of life and travel in the Canadian north in the late 1940s and early 1950s, with postscripts updating each section to the late 1980s.
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2 editions published between and 2007 in English and held by 569 libraries worldwide
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10 editions published between and 1969 in English and French and held by 546 libraries worldwide
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7 editions published between and 1966 in English and held by 473 libraries worldwide
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9 editions published between and 2001 in English and held by 465 libraries worldwide
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9 editions published between and 2001 in English and held by 436 libraries worldwide
Story leading up to the signing of the contract for the CPR.
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10 editions published between and 2008 in English and held by 430 libraries worldwide
Examines the true stories of five Arctic adventurers who braved the harsh Arctic landscape between the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.
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16 editions published between and 2001 in English and French and held by 429 libraries worldwide
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 Bill Gates, who bathed in champagne; Silent Sam Bonnifield, who lost and won back a hotel in a poker game; and Roddy Connors, who danced away a fortune at a dollar a dance. We meet dance-hall queens, paupers turned millionaires, missionaries and entrepreneurs, and legendary Mounties such as Sam Steele, the Lion of the Yukon. Pierre Berton's riveting account reveals to us the spectacle of the Chilkoot Pass, and the terrors of lesser-known trails through the swamps of British Columbia, across the glaciers of southern Alaska, and up the icy streams of the Mackenzie Mountains. It contrasts the lawless frontier life on the American side of the border to the relative safety of Dawson City. Winner of the Governor General's award for non-fiction, Klondike is authentic history and grand entertainment, and a must-read for anyone interested in the Canadian frontier.
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10 editions published between and 2003 in English and Undetermined and held by 372 libraries worldwide
In 1917, the Canadian Corps seized and held the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front, a feat thought impossible by the British, French and German forces. The author believes they succeeded because the men were civilians, with flexible minds unfetterd by military rules.
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5 editions published between and 1967 in English and held by 372 libraries worldwide
 
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The Arctic grail : the quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909
Alternative Names

controlled identity Kroniuk, Lisa

Berton, Piotr.
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