{"title":"Pierre Berton","description":"Pierre Berton was the author of fifty books, including the New York Times bestseller The Arctic Grail, Niagara, The Invasion of Canada, and Flames Across the Border. He received three Governor General's awards for non-fiction, two National Newspaper Awards, the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and the National History Society's inaugural Pierre Berton Award. He was a member of the Newsman's Hall of Fame and a Companion of the Order of Canada and lived in Ontario until his death in 2005","products":[{"product_id":"the-dionne-years-a-thirties-melodrama-paperback","title":"The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe story of the Dionne identical quints, born in Ontario Canada in May 1934.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365998690527,"sku":"9780393332261","price":25.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/WxZqeBxe_G9780393332261.webp?v=1789077233"},{"product_id":"the-klondike-fever-the-life-and-death-of-the-last-great-gold-rush-paperback","title":"The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A lively saga\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) of the great Alaska gold rush--a story of cold skies and avalanches, con men and gamblers and dance hall girls, grizzly old miners and millionaires\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1897 a grimy steamer bearing two tons of pure Klondike gold docked in Seattle, immediately triggering a stampede north to Alaska. In his exhilarating \u003ci\u003eThe Klondike Fever\u003c\/i\u003e, Pierre Berton chronicles the incredible succession of events that followed in all their splendid and astonishing folly. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As many as 100,000 adventurers, dreamers, and would-be miners from all over the world struck out for the remote, isolated gold fields of the Klondike Valley, most of them in total ignorance of the long, harsh Alaskan winters and the territory's indomitable terrain. Less than a third of that number would complete the enormously arduous mountain journey to their destination, and fewer still would strike gold. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Berton's story belongs less to those who would make their fortunes than to the many swept up in the gold mania who met misfortune and tragic ends. \u003ci\u003eThe Klondike Fever\u003c\/i\u003e is a stirring testament to the human capacity to dream, and to endure.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366138151135,"sku":"9780786713172","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ZieNpVUfXZ9780786713172.webp?v=1789084371"},{"product_id":"the-klondike-fever-the-life-and-death-of-the-last-great-gold-rush-original-edition-paperback","title":"The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush (original edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis thrilling story of the Klondike Gold Rush is at once first-rate history and first-rate entertainment. Some of the anecdotes of the last great gold rush have been told by others, but Pierre Berton is the first to distill the Klondike experience into a single, complete, coherent and immensely dramatic narrative. He spent 12 years in Dawson City researching the work. The entire tale has an epic ring, as much because of its splendid folly as because of its color and motion. The full story has never been told before, nor has it been told in this dramatic way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366638747871,"sku":"9781773239286","price":25.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/s32ZoJlYe_9781773239286.webp?v=1789095201"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/pierre-berton.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}