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Robert Michael Ballantyne

The Coral Island & Snowflakes & Sunbeams

eBook (American Cowboy Books Dec. 8, 2013) , 1 edition
• Two of R.M. Ballantyne's novels for boys are in this Kindle eBook: The Coral Island, A Tale of the Pacific & Snowflakes & SunbeamsThe Coral Island, A Tale of the Pacific (1858)Three boys survive a shipwreck, but the find themselves on a deserted South Pacific island. The book was inspired by Robinson Crusoe. Snowflakes & Sunbeams Or, The Young Fur-traders: A Tale of the Far North: Part of the "Boy's Own" series of juvenile adventures.About The Author Edinburgh, Scotland-born author Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825 –1894) wrote novels for young boys, publishing more than 100 books. At age 16, Ballantyne went to Canada where he spent five years working for the Hudson's Bay Company. He traded with Native Americans for furs, making his jouney by canoe and sleigh, which gave him the basis for his novel Snowflakes and Sunbeams (1856). Ballantyne returned to Scotland in 1847 and learned that his father had died. He published his first book the following year, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North America.Robert Michael Ballantyne''s books include: The Young Fur-Traders (1856), The Coral Island (1857), The World of Ice (1859), Ungava: a Tale of Eskimo Land (1857), The Dog Crusoe (1860), The Lighthouse (1865), Fighting the Whales (1866), Deep Down (1868), The Pirate City (1874), Erling the Bold (1869), The Settler and the Savage (1877), and more than 100 others.
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