Cats I Have Known and Loved
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 chosen his best cat tales to share with us.
Pierre Berton is a master storyteller, and his lyrical writing and sense of pacing and adventure enliven this collection, making it irresistible to any cat lover.
The book opens with the adventure of Pousse-Pousse, the cat with extra toes, who was carried off by a Great Horned Owl and, seven months later, reappeared at the door, bedraggled but alive. Pierre Berton’s first…
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 Canadian daily. He wrote columns for and was editor of…
Smug Minority
Pierre Berton
Why We Act Like Canadians
Pierre Berton
Pierre Berton's War of 1812
Pierre Berton
Flames Across the Border
Pierre Berton
The Invasion of Canada
Pierre Berton
Cats I Have Known and Loved
Pierre Berton
The Wild Frontier
Pierre Berton
Prisoners of the North
Pierre Berton
The Joy of Writing
Pierre Berton
Marching as to War
Pierre Berton
My Country
Pierre Berton
Niagara
Pierre Berton
The Promised Land
Pierre Berton