Pierre Berton (1920–2004)
Autore di The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush
Sull'Autore
Pierre Berton was born in 1920 and raised in the Yukon. He worked in Klondike mining camps during his university years, spending four years in the army, rising from private to captain/instructor at the Royal Military College in Kingston. After the military, Berton went to Vancouver where he began mostra altro his career at a newspaper. At 21, he was the youngest city editor on any Canadian daily. He moved to Toronto in 1947, and at the age of 31 was named managing editor of Maclean's. In 1957 he became a key member of the CBC's public affairs flagship program, Close-Up, and a permanent panelist on Front Page Challenge. He joined The Toronto Star as an associate editor and columnist in 1958, leaving 4 years later in '62 to commence The Pierre Berton Show, which ran until 1973. Since then he has appeared as host and writer on My Country, The Great Debate, Heritage Theatre, and The Secret of My Success. He has received numerous honourary degrees and served as the Chancellor of Yukon College. Berton is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, and has received a Stephen Leacock Medal for Humor in 1959, a Govenor's General Award for The Mysterious North in 1956, Klondike in 1958 and The Last Spike in 1972. Berton has also won a Nellie Award for best public broadcaster in radio in 1978, the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award for non fiction in, 1981 and the Canadian Booksellers Award in 1982. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Wrote a single novel as Lisa Kroniuk.
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Opere di Pierre Berton
The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and The North Pole, 1818-1909 (1988) 449 copie
The Big Sell 12 copie
My war with the 20th century 4 copie
The National Dream: The Great Railway. 1871-1881 & The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885 (2 Volumes) (1973) 4 copie
THE KLONDYKE RIVER` 1 copia
Steel and steam 1 copia
The Beaver (Vol. 64, No. 2 Summer 1984) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
The Invasion Of Canada 1812-1813 / Flames Across the Border: The Canadian-American Tragedy 1813-1814 (1981) 1 copia
The Smug Minority 1 copia
Opere correlate
For the Love of History : Winners of the Pierre Berton Award Bring to Life Canada's Past (2005) — Prefazione — 4 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Berton, Pierre
- Nome legale
- Berton, Pierre Francis de Marigny CC, O.Ont
- Altri nomi
- Kroniuk, Lisa
- Data di nascita
- 1920-07-12
- Data di morte
- 2004-11-30
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada (ashes scattered)
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Nazione (per mappa)
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
- Luogo di morte
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Causa della morte
- heart failure
- Luogo di residenza
- Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Istruzione
- University of British Columbia (BA | History)
Victoria College - Attività lavorative
- historian
Captain (Canadian Army)
Instructor (Royal Military College of Canada)
writer
journalist - Relazioni
- Berton, Janet (wife)
Berton, Laura Beatrice (mother) - Organizzazioni
- The Ubyssey
Canadian Army
Royal Military College of Canada
CBC
Yukon College
Writers' Trust of Canada - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Order of Canada (Officer ∙ 1974 | Companion ∙ 1986)
Governor General's Literary Award (creative non-fiction ∙ 1956 ∙ 1958 ∙ 1972)
Stephen Leacock Medal of Humour (1960)
CBA Libris Award (Lifetime Achievement Award ∙ 2004)
Gabrielle Léger National Heritage Award (1989)
National History Society (first award for "distinguished achievement in popularizing Canadian history" ∙ 1994) (mostra tutto 15)
Canadian Authors' Association Award, Canada's Man of the Century (1967)
The Alumni Award of Distinction, University of British Columbia (1981)
Canadian News Hall of Fame (member ∙ 1983)
Canadian Railway Hall of Fame Award of Recognition (2002)
Graeme Gibson Award (1992)
Order of Mariposa (1990)
Order of Ontario (1992)
Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal (2002)
Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal (1977) - Breve biografia
- Pierre Berton was a well-known Canadian historian and TV personality. Berton grew up in the Yukon and worked in Klondike mining camps during his university years. He began his newspaper career in Vancouver, becoming the youngest city editor on any Canadian daily at age 21. Berton moved to Toronto in 1947, and in 1951 he became managing editor of Maclean's magazine.
Berton first appeared on TV in 1952, as a panellist on Court of Opinion. In 1957, he became the host of the CBC's public affairs flagship program Close-Up, and became a panelist on Front Page Challenge. He joined The Toronto Star as associate editor and columnist in 1958, leaving in 1962 to commence The Pierre Berton Show, which ran until 1973. In 1963 he premiered the Pierre Berton Show (also known as the Pierre Berton Hour) on the CTV network. - Nota di disambiguazione
- Wrote a single novel as Lisa Kroniuk.
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Recensioni
The Secret World of Og di Pierre Berton
Fantasy
Lovely photo essays, and word essays. A mix of reminiscences, history, and current (to the early 1990s) observations. The words evoked a lot of what I feel about winter. And I loved that there were photos of snowstorms!
A könyv az alaszkai (pontosabban klondike-i) aranyláz történetét mutatja be meglepő részletességgel. Bár a szerző nem volt személyesen részese az aranyláznak, de gyerekkorát Dawson Cityben töltötte (édesapja ment oda az aranyláz miatt) így még tudott a szemtanúkkal beszélni. Ezen kívül számtalan visszaemlékezést, könyvet, cikket használt fel a kutatása során.
A részletes és pontos leírás mellett a könyv rengeteg nehezen ellenőrizhető történetet tartalmaz, ezek egy része tényleg regénybe illik, nem tudom vajon mennyire igaz minden, a legjobb szándékkal is becsúszhattak túlzások. A leírás tényleg nagyon izgalmas, érdekes azt is olvasni persze, milyen szenvedéseket mentek át az aranyásók, de nekem sokkal érdekesebbnek tűnt a hely gazdaságának bemutatása, furcsa volt olvasni, hogy milyen egyszerű dolgok kerültek vagyonokba, milyen tárgyak voltak teljesen értéktelenek. Elég jól bemutatja a könyv azt is, hogy pontosan kik és miért is mentek aranyásónak.
A könyv időnként túl részletes, kordokumentumként persze fontos az ötvenedik aranyásó története is, de egy idő után azért ez elég repetitív.… (altro)
A részletes és pontos leírás mellett a könyv rengeteg nehezen ellenőrizhető történetet tartalmaz, ezek egy része tényleg regénybe illik, nem tudom vajon mennyire igaz minden, a legjobb szándékkal is becsúszhattak túlzások. A leírás tényleg nagyon izgalmas, érdekes azt is olvasni persze, milyen szenvedéseket mentek át az aranyásók, de nekem sokkal érdekesebbnek tűnt a hely gazdaságának bemutatása, furcsa volt olvasni, hogy milyen egyszerű dolgok kerültek vagyonokba, milyen tárgyak voltak teljesen értéktelenek. Elég jól bemutatja a könyv azt is, hogy pontosan kik és miért is mentek aranyásónak.
A könyv időnként túl részletes, kordokumentumként persze fontos az ötvenedik aranyásó története is, de egy idő után azért ez elég repetitív.… (altro)
This book recounts the events of the first year of the War of 1812, and the present tense puts the reader at the heart of the action. It was written in 1980, though, and I’m sure more recent scholarship can fill in the (acknowledged by Berton) gaps in history, notably events from the Indigenous perspective.
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- Utenti
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- Popolarità
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- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 106
- ISBN
- 245
- Lingue
- 3
- Preferito da
- 12