Drifting Home
by Berton, Pierre

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Is an account of a journey by Pierre Berton and his family down one of the world's great wild rivers, the Yukon. In it, Berton has created a special magic through a unique blending of nostalgia, his deep love of the land, and his unrivalled knowledge of the history of the area.

Few men ever have the opportunity to take their sons and daughters back with them into their own childhood so completely as Pierre Berton has in this story of a summer voyage down the Yukon River in rubber rafts. This journey into history took the author, his wife and their seven children over the 1898 Gold rush route of 1898 from Lake Bennett, B.C., to Dawson in the Yukon Territory.

But this unusual book is a story of three, not two, generations. It was down this unchanged river that the author's remarkable father paddled with thousands of gold-seekers the summer of '98. When the rush ended and the crowds left, his father stayed on as government mining recorder. It was there, in Canada;s most famous ghost town, that Berton spent his own vividly-remembered childhood.

It is as much a touchingly human testimony to his father's courage, curiosity and determination, as it is a contemporary insight into a man and his family experiencing the wilderness in the Seventies.

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Weight:	0.40 kg
Price:	CDN$ 28.00 (US$ 27.25)

Stock Number:	81063AN
Author:	Berton, Pierre
Publisher:	McClelland & Stewart
Publication Date:	1973
Pages:	174 pp
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	VG/G+ 174 pp + several pages of illustrations FIRST EDITION - Orange boards w/title embossed on front; black dj shows a little wear and edge-chipping; account of Berton family canoe trip from the head waters of the Yukon River to Dawson City, where Pierre
First Edition:	First Edition