Books with author R. M. Ballantyne

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This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific OceanThe Madman and the PirateUnder the Waves: Diving in Deep WatersThe Pirate City: An Algerine TaleGascoyne, the Sandal-Wood TraderR M Ballantyne was a famous children's author and a renowned artist.

This book is illustrated.One fine autumn evening, between eight and nine hundred years ago, two large hairy creatures, bearing some resemblance to polar bears, might have been seen creeping slowly, and with much caution, toward the summit of a ridge that formed a spur to one of the ice-clad mountains of Greenland. The creatures went on all-fours. They had long bodies, short legs, shorter tails, and large round heads.Having gained the top of the ridge they peeped over and beheld a hamlet nestled at the foot of a frowning cliff; and at the head of a smiling inlet. We use these terms advisedly, because the cliff, being in deep shadow, looked unusually black and forbidding, while the inlet, besides being under the influence of a profound calm, was lit up on all its dimples by the rays of the setting sun.R. M. Ballantyne (24 April 1825 – 8 February 1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer.Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. At the age of 16 he went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. He returned to Scotland in 1847, and published his first book the following year, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North America. For some time he was employed by Messrs Constable, the publishers, but in 1856 he gave up business for the profession of literature, and began the series of adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated.

e-artnow presents to you this unique action & adventure collection with sea adventure novels, western classics, historical thrillers, treasure hunt tales, war stories.Table of Contents:The Coral IslandSnowflakes and Sunbeams (The Young Fur Traders)UngavaMartin RattlerThe Dog Crusoe and his MasterThe World of IceThe Gorilla HuntersThe Golden DreamThe Red EricAway in the WildernessFighting the WhalesThe Wild Man of the WestFast in the IceGascoyneThe LifeboatChasing the SunFreaks on the FellsThe LighthouseFighting The FlamesSilver LakeDeep DownShifting WindsHunting the LionsOver the Rocky MountainsSaved by the LifeboatErling the BoldThe Battle and the BreezeThe Cannibal IslandsLost in the ForestDigging for GoldSunk at SeaThe Floating Light of the Goodwin SandsThe Iron HorseThe Norsemen in the WestThe PioneersBlack IvoryLife in the Red BrigadeFort DesolationThe Pirate CityThe Story of the RockRivers of IceUnder the WavesThe Settler and the SavageIn the Track of the TroopsJarwin and CuffyPhilosopher JackPost HasteThe Lonely IslandThe Red Man's RevengeMy Doggie and IThe Giant of the NorthThe Madman and the PirateThe Battery and the BoilerThe Thorogood FamilyThe Young TrawlerDusty Diamonds, Cut and PolishedTwice BoughtThe Island QueenThe Rover of the AndesThe Prairie ChiefThe Lively PollRed RooneyThe Big OtterThe FugitivesBlue LightsThe Middy and the MoorsThe Eagle CliffThe Crew of the Water WagtailBlown to BitsThe Garret and the GardenJeff BensonCharlie to the RescueThe Coxswain's BrideThe Buffalo RunnersThe Hot SwampHunted and HarriedThe Walrus HuntersWrecked but not RuinedSix Months at the CapeMemoirs:Personal Reminiscences in Book Making

March Marston was mad! The exact state of madness to which March had attained at the age when we take up his personal history—namely, sixteen—is uncertain, for the people of the backwoods settlement in which he dwelt differed in their opinions on that point.The clergyman, who was a Wesleyan, said he was as wild as a young buffalo bull; but the manner in which he said so led his hearers to conclude that he did not think such a state of ungovernable madness to be a hopeless condition, by any means. The doctor said he was as mad as a hatter; but this was an indefinite remark, worthy of a doctor who had never obtained a diploma, and required explanation, inasmuch as it was impossible to know how mad he considered a hatter to be. Some of the trappers who came to the settlement for powder and lead, said he was as mad as a grisly bear with a whooping-cough—a remark which, if true, might tend to throw light on the diseases to which the grisly bear is liable, but which failed to indicate to any one, except perhaps trappers, the extent of young Marston’s madness. The carpenter and the blacksmith of the place—who were fast friends and had a pitched battle only once a month, or twice at most—agreed in saying that he was as mad as a wild-cat. In short, every one asserted stoutly that the boy was mad, with the exception of the women of the settlement, who thought him a fine, bold, handsome fellow; and his own mother, who thought him a paragon of perfection, and who held the opinion (privately) that, in the wide range of the habitable globe there was not another like him—and she was not far wrong!Now, the whole and sole reason why March Marston was thus deemed a madman, was that he displayed an insane tendency, at all times and in all manners, to break his own neck, or to make away with himself in some similarly violent and uncomfortable manner.(Illustrated)

Three boys, fifteen-year-old Ralph Rover, 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 and a small axe, they fashion a shelter and even construct a small boat.

The treatment of the Scottish Covenanters by the British crown under the Stuart dynasty in the seventeenth century is a subject to which little space has ever been afforded in history books, yet that story goes a long way toward illustrating why religious worship needs to remain free of state control. Written in the nineteenth century by R. M. Ballantyne, this novel is a sympathetic portrayal of what is termed the "killing time" in Anglo-Scottish relations. (Amazon)

First published in 1869, “The Wild Man of the West: A Tale of the Rocky Mountains” is a Western fiction novel aimed at children by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. Presented as a series of stories told by “mountain men”, it revolves around the early trappers and hunters of the Rocky Mountains and their tumultuous relationship with the Native Americans. A rip-roaring adventure full of beautiful descriptions and fantastic characters, “The Wild Man of the West” is highly recommended for all with a love of the Western genre. (Amazon)

One of the first accounts of life in the far north, pre-dating Jack London by nearly half a century, R.M. Ballantyne's Ungava is a terrifying, illuminating tale, based on real events as the first trading post in the Land of the Esquimaux is established on Ungava Bay. The first Europeans that far north encounter both Native Americans and Esquimaux with often grisly and inexplicable results, but therein lies its utter truth, unvarnished and fascinating, even when painful.(Illustrated)

Frank Wilders is a bright, shining young star rising to distinguished heroism in the London Fire Brigade. No one is more proud of his accomplishments than his younger brother, Willie. As Frank battles the flames, Willie learns what the heart of a hero is made of. Through daring rescues, valiant hard work, plots of arson, attempted murder and winning the worthy hearts of virtuous young women, the best and worst of mid-19th century London is exposed. "Fighting the Flames: A Tale of the London Fire Brigade" is a masterpiece of fiction; a beautiful tapestry woven of adventure, heroism and the broad spectrum of human nature. R.M. Ballantyne expertly maneuvers his extensive and intricate cast of characters through a series of crossed paths, creating lively interplay between the wide varieties of human personalities and foibles that create the diversity of city life--all in the shadow of the great nightly battle with the flames.R. M. Ballantyne (24 April 1825 – 8 February 1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer.Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. At the age of 16 he went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. He returned to Scotland in 1847, and published his first book the following year, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North America. For some time he was employed by Messrs Constable, the publishers, but in 1856 he gave up business for the profession of literature, and began the series of adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated. (Illustrated)