{"product_id":"fire-canoe-prairie-steamboat-days-revisited-hardcover","title":"Fire Canoe: Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTed Barris\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYears before railroads arrived, the Canadian West was opened up by an unlikely breed of ship: steamboats plying Prairie waterways. Their aboriginal pilots, experts at reading the tricky waterways, called the ships \"fire canoes.\" By day they chased freight contracts, but at night they introduced the Edwardian Prairies to pleasure cruises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTed Barris is an award-winning author, journalist, and broadcaster. For more than forty years his writing has appeared in the national press, as well as in history, news, and arts magazines, and he has authored seventeen non-fiction books. In 2014, his \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e national bestseller, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Escape\u003c\/i\u003e received the national Libris Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award. He lives in Uxbridge, Ontario.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.2 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 20, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45774894104773,"sku":"9781459732087","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/MgK-eWxU2k9781459732087.webp?v=1770528802","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/fire-canoe-prairie-steamboat-days-revisited-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}