Peter Ferguson is the author of The Big Barges (1983), It Never Snows in England (1982), Biological, Chemical and Physical Relationships of Wild Rice, Zizania Aquatica L., in Northwestern Ontario and Northeastern Minnesota (1979), Effects of Stocking Rate of Young-of-the-year Tilapia on the Production of Marketable Size Fish in Cages (1979), A Week by the Sea (1976).