Robert Michael Ballantyne Books
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Erling The Bold
[english | 1869]Robert Michael Ballantyne
Summary: [This is a tale of a Sea-rover or Viking as theyre called. In the authors own words The present tale is founded chiefly on the information conveyed in that most interesting work by Snorro Sturleson The Heimskringla or Chronicles of the Kings of Norway. It is translated from the Icelandic. On perceiving the intention of the Danes to attack him Erlings heart was glad because he now felt sure that to ...]
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Jarwin And Cuffy
[english | 1900]Robert Michael Ballantyne
Summary: [Excerpt: In all the wide expanse of ocean that surrounded that island there was nothing visible save one small solitary speck on the far-off horizon. It might have been mistaken for a seagull but it was in reality a rafta mass of spars and planks rudely bound together with ropes. A boats mast rose from the centre of it on which hung a rag of sail and a small red flag drooped motionless from its ...]
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Martin Rattler
[english | 1858]Robert Michael Ballantyne
Summary: [The story of Martin Rattler a mischievous boy with a good heart who mistakenly ends up on the ship Firefly headed to the South Seas. With his friend Barney OFlannagan Martin escape pirates survives a shipwreck and explores South America in one adventure after another.]
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Post Haste
[english | 1880]Robert Michael Ballantyne
Summary: [This tale is founded chiefly on facts furnished by the Postmaster-Generals Annual Reports and gathered during personal intercourse and investigation at the General Post-Office of London and its Branches. It is intended to illustrate--not by any means to exhaust--the subject of postal work communication and incident throughout the Kingdom.]
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The Coral Island
[english | 1857]Robert Michael Ballantyne
Summary: [Three boys fifteen-year-old Ralph Rover (the narrator) eighteen-year-old Jack Martin and fourteen-year-old Peterkin Gay are the sole survivors of a shipwreck on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island. At first their life on the island is idyllic food in the shape of fruits fish and wild pigs is plentiful and using their only possessions a broken telescope an iron-bound oar ...]
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The Dog Crusoe And His Master
[english | 1894]Robert Michael Ballantyne
Summary: [Who doesnt like a story that involves a great dog and his young master and friends? In this book you will share their action packed journey and adventures as they wander through the Western prairies with a mission to bring peace between the white population and the assorted Indian tribes. They face many perils and become heroes many times over.]
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The Norsemen In The West
[english | 1872]Robert Michael Ballantyne
Summary: [A tale of adventure and evangelism Ballantyne transforms into engaging historical fiction the well-known facts of the Icelandic Saga--stories of exploration and adventure blessed marriage alternating turmoil and peace with indigenous people--all sprinkled with delightful and humorous stories of day-to-day life surrounding the first European ground breaking in America. The Norsemen in the West ...]
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The Young Fur Traders
[english | 1856]Robert Michael Ballantyne
Summary: [Follows the adventures of a young man called Charles Kennedy. Loosely autobiographical account of Ballantynes own time with the Hudsons Bay Company in Canada. Its success prompted a series of excellent stories of adventure for the young with which this prolific Scottish authors name is popularly associated. In the very center of the great continent of North America far removed from the abodes of ...]
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