Books with author Robert Michael Ballantyne

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R. M. Ballantyne was a prolific author, whose most famous novel ‘The Coral Island’ helped change the course of children’s literature. This comprehensive eBook presents Ballantyne’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Ballantyne’s life and works* ALL 84 novels and novellas, ALL with individual contents tables* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* Excellent formatting of the texts* Famous works such as THE CORAL ISLAND are fully illustrated with their original artwork* Includes Ballantyne’s rare Nursery Tales published under the pseudonym Comus – fully illustrated, with many appearing here for the first time in digital publishing* A selection of non-fiction, including the rare THE COLLECTED WORKS OF ENSIGN SOPHT, LATE OF THE VOLUNTEERS, available in no other collection and fully illustrated * Features Ballantyne’s autobiography PERSONAL REMINISCENES IN BOOKEEPING - discover Ballantyne’s intriguing life* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genresPlease note: no known copies of the last novel Reuben's Luck are available at the time of this collection's publication. As soon as we are able to locate a copy of this scarce work, it will be added to the collection as a free update.Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titlesCONTENTS:The Novels and NovellasSNOWFLAKES AND SUNBEAMSTHE CORAL ISLANDMARTIN RATTLERUNGAVATHE DOG CRUSOE AND HIS MASTERTHE GOLDEN DREAMTHE WORLD OF ICETHE GORILLA HUNTERSTHE RED ERICAWAY IN THE WILDERNESSFIGHTING THE WHALESMAN ON THE OCEANFAST IN THE ICETHE WILD MAN OF THE WESTCHASING THE SUNGASCOYNE: THE SANDAL-WOOD TRADERTHE LIFEBOATFREAKS ON THE FELLSTHE LIGHTHOUSESHIFTING WINDSA RESCUE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINSSILVER LAKEFIGHTING THE FLAMESDEEP DOWNERLING THE BOLDLOST IN THE FORESTSAVED BY THE LIFEBOATSUNK AT SEAOVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINSUP IN THE CLOUDSTHE CANNIBAL ISLANDSHUNTING THE LIONSTHE BATTLE AND THE BREEZETHE FLOATING LIGHT OF THE GOODWIN SANDSTHE IRON HORSETHE NORSEMEN IN THE WESTTHE PIONEERSLIFE IN THE RED BRIGADEBLACK IVORYFORT DESOLATIONTHE OCEAN AND ITS WONDERSTHE PIRATE CITYRIVERS OF ICETHE STORY OF THE ROCKWRECKED BUT NOT RUINEDUNDER THE WAVESTHE SETTLER AND THE SAVAGEIN THE TRACK OF THE TROOPSJARWIN AND CUFFYDIGGING FOR GOLDSIX MONTHS AT THE CAPETHE LONELY ISLANDPHILOSOPHER JACKPOST HASTETHE RED MAN’S REVENGETHE GIANT OF THE NORTHMY DOGGIE AND ITHE BATTERY AND THE BOILERBATTLES WITH THE SEATHE MADMAN AND THE PIRATETHE THOROUGHGOOD FAMILYDUSTY DIAMONDS, CUT AND POLISHEDTHE YOUNG TRAWLERTHE ISLAND QUEENTHE ROVER OF THE ANDESTWICE BOUGHTTHE PRAIRIE CHIEFRED ROONEYTHE LIVELY POLLTHE FUGITIVESTHE BIG OTTERBLUE LIGHTSTHE MIDDY AND THE MOORSBLOWN TO BITSTHE CREW OF THE WATER WAGTAILTHE EAGLE CLIFFCHARLIE TO THE RESCUETHE GARRET AND THE GARDENJEFF BENSONTHE BUFFALO RUNNERSTHE COXSWAIN’S BRIDETHE HOT SWAMPHUNTED AND HARRIEDTHE WALRUS HUNTERSThe Nursery TalesTHREE LITTLE KITTENSTHE BUTTERFLY’S BALL AND THE GRASSHOPPER’S FEASTMISTER FOXTHE LIFE OF A SHIP, FROM THE LAUNCH TO THE WRECKMY MOTHERTHE ROBBER KITTENThe Non-FictionHUDSON’S BAYHANDBOOK TO THE NEW GOLDFIELDSTHE COLLECTED WORKS OF ENSIGN SOPHT, LATE OF THE VOLUNTEERSThe AutobiographyPERSONAL REMINISCENES IN BOOKEEPINGPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

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.

Three young Englishmen, 15-year-old Ralph Rover, Jack, who is older than him for three years, and the cheerful 14-year-old Peter, were got on a desert island after their ship was wrecked. They made their life in the spirit of Robinson Crusoe, and despite the typhoons, wild boar attacks and hostile visitors to the island, they lived an almost perfect life. The boys made fire by rubbing two sticks and climb the palm trees for coconuts. The boys were building a boat with sails of copra to get to a nearby island, where Jack won the battle of the leader of the tribe Taror. Then the pirates kidnapped Ralph whose adventures continued in the southern islands.

The Coral Islandby Robert Michael BallantyneThree 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 and a small axe, they fashion a shelter and even construct a small boat.Their first contact with other people comes after several months when they observe two large outrigger canoes land on the beach. The two groups are engaged in battle and the three boys intervene to successfully defeat the attacking party, earning the gratitude of the chief Tararo. The Polynesians leave and the three boys are alone once more.Then more unwelcome visitors arrive in the shape of pirates, who make a living trading, or stealing, sandalwood. The three boys conceal themselves in a hidden cave, but Ralph is captured when he sets out to see if the pirates have left, and is taken aboard the pirate schooner. Ralph strikes up an unexpected friendship with one of the pirates, "Bloody Bill", and when they call at an island to trade for more wood he meets Tararo again. On the island he sees all facets of island life, including the popular sport of surfing, as well as the practice of infanticide and cannibalism.Rising tension leads to an attack by the inhabitants on the pirates, leaving only Ralph alive and Bloody Bill mortally wounded. However they manage to make their escape in the schooner. After Bill dies, making a death-bed repentance for his evil life, Ralph manages to sail back to the Coral Island to be re-united with his friends.(less)Fiction Action & Adventure

On perceiving the intention of the Danes to attack him, Erling's heart was glad, because he now felt sure that to some extent he had them in his power. If they had, on his first appearance, taken to their ships, they might have easily escaped, or some of the smaller vessels might have pulled up the river and attacked his ship, which, in that case, would have had to meet them on unequal terms; but, now that they were about to attack him on land, he knew that he could keep them in play as long as he pleased, and that if they should, on the appearance of reinforcements, again make for their ships, he could effectively harass them, and retard their embarkation.