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Robert Michael Ballantyne / R.M. Ballantyne
Book List in Order: 104 titles
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The Young Fur Traders
- 1856
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Follows the adventures of a young man called Charles Kennedy. Loosely autobiographical account of Ballantyne's own time with the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada. Its success prompted a series of excellent stories of adventure for the young with which ...
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The Dog Crusoe And His Master
- 1861
- / Action Adventure
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A story of adventure in the western prairies by the Scottish master of juvenile fiction, Robert Michael Ballantyne....
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The Lifeboat
- 1864
- / General Fiction
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Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines
- 1868
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Pirate City
- 1874
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What starts out as a pleasant family sea voyage takes a nightmarish turn in R.M. Ballantyne's The Pirate City. A prosperous Italian businessman and his sons are captured by a crew of pirates and are forcibly entered into servitude in the vast, roilin...
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Post Haste: A Tale of Her Majesty's Mails
- 1880
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In this fun adventure in merry, old England, the reader is taken back to the beginning days of the General Post-Office, learning about the founding of the mail system. In the 1800's, guaranteeing a letter to delivery was a bit of a challenge, as Phil...
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The Walrus Hunters
- 1892
- / General Fiction
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My Doggie And I
- Jun-2016
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R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. In 1848 he published his first book, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of N...
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Man on the Ocean
- May-2018
- / General Fiction
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R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. In 1848 he published his first book, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of N...
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Battery and the Boiler
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Battle and the Breeze
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Battles with the Sea
A title from Ballantyne It ought to be known to all English boys that there is a terrible and costly war in which the British nation is at all times engaged. No intervals of peace mark the course of this war. Cessations of hostilities there are for b...
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Big Otter
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Black Ivory
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Blue Lights
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Buffalo Runners
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The Butterfly's Ball
R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. In 1848 he published his first book, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of N...
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Charlie To The Rescue
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Chasing the Sun
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Coxswain's Bride
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The Crew Of The Water Wagtail
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Dusty Diamonds Cut And Polished
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Eagle Cliff
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Erling the Bold
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Fighting the Flames; A Tale of the London Fire Brigade
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Fighting The Whales, Or, Doings And Dangers Of A Fihsing Cruise
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Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands
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Fort Desolation
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Freaks On The Fells
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The Fugitives, Or, The Tyrant Queen Of Madagascar
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The Garret And The Garden
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Gascoyne, The Sandal Wood Trader
Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If yo...
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The Giant of the North
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Golden Dream
Ned Sinton gazed at the scene before him with indescribable amazement He had often witnessed strange things in the course of his short though chequered life, but he had never seen anything like this. Many a dream of the most extravagant nature had s...
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The Gorilla Hunters
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Hot Swamp
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Hudson Bay Company
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Hunted and Harried
The executioner was about to obey when a noise was heard at the door of the Council Chamber, and a cavalier, booted and spurred and splashed with mud, as if he had ridden fast and far, strode hastily up to the Duke and whispered in his ear. The effec...
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Hunting the Lions
R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. In 1848 he published his first book, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of N...
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In The Track Of The Troops
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Iron Horse
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Island Queen
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Jarwin and Cuffy
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Jeff Benson; Or, the Young Coastguardsman
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Life in the Red Brigade
A fantastic adventure novel by the master of juvenile fiction Robert Michael Ballantyne about life in the London Fire Brigade....
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The Lighthouse
Early on a summer morning, about the beginning of the nineteenth century, two fishermen of Forfarshire wended their way to the shore, launched their boat, and put off to sea. One of the men was tall and ill-favoured, the other, short and well-favoure...
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Lost in the Forest
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The Madman And The Pirate
Join us aboard a pirate ship in a time that never was. A swashbuckling tale of mutiny and courage set in the Pacific. Vivid and entertaining....
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Martin Rattler
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The Middy And The Moors
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Mister Fox, By Comus
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The Norsemen In The West, Or, America Before Columbus
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The Ocean And Its Wonders
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Over The Rocky Mountains And Wandering Will In The Land Of The Red Skins
The hero of many of them is a character calledWill Osten, or Wandering Will. In this book he returns from a long tripaway, during which his father had died, so his mother was very pleasedto see him. But just before he died his father had been left ...
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Philosopher Jack
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The Prairie Chief
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The Red Eric; Or, The Whaler's Last Cruise
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The Red Man's Revenge
R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. In 1848 he published his first book, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of N...
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Rivers of Ice
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The Rover Of The Andes
A fantastic historical adventure by the Scottish master of juvenile fiction R. M. Ballantyne....
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Saved By The Lifeboat
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The Settler And The Savage
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Shifting Winds
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Silver Lake
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Six Months At The Cape
R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. In 1848 he published his first book, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of N...
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The Story Of The Rock
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Sunk At Sea
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Thorogood Family
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Twice Bought
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Ungava: A Tale of the Eskimos Land
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Up In The Clouds
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Why I Did Not Go to Sea
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Wild Man of the West
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The World Of Ice
Dear Reader, most people prefer a short to a long preface. Permit me, therefore, to cut this one short, by simply expressing an earnest hope that my book may afford you much profit and amusement....
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Wrecked but Not Ruined
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Young Trawler
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Away In The Wilderness
R.M. Ballantyne Book. On a beautiful summer evening, not many years ago, a man was seen to ascend the side of a little mound or hillock, on the top of which he lingered to gaze upon the wild scenery that lay stretched out before him. The man wore the...
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Blown to Bits Or, the Lonely Man of Rakata
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The Burglars and the Parson
A Country mansion in the south of England. The sun rising over a laurel-hedge, flooding the ivy-covered walls with light, and blazing in at the large bay-window of the dining-room. "Take my word for it, Robin, if ever this 'ouse is broke into, it wil...
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The Cannibal Islands
A wonderfully grisly children's tale of terrifying sea voyages and savage lands by the master of juvenile fiction R. M. Ballantyne....
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The Coral Island
When the three sailor lads, Ralph, Jack and Peterkin are cast ashore after the storm, their first task is to find out whether the island is inhabited. Their next task is to find a way of staying alive. They go hunting and learn to fish, expore underw...
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Digging for Gold, or, Adventures in California
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Diving In Deep Waters
This is one of the earliest classical fiction texts about deep sea diving. Written by the popular author R. M. Ballanyne this is quite possibly one of the best fictional representations of hard hat diving to come form the nineteenth century. This rep...
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A Double Rescue
It is a curious and interesting fact that Christmas-tide seemed to have a peculiar influence on the prospects of our hero Jack Matterby, all through his life. All the chief events of his career, somehow, happened on or about Christmas Day. Jack was b...
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Fast In The Ice; Or, Adventures In The Polar Regions
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Forgive and Forget
Old Captain Bolter said he would never forgive Jo Grain--never. And what Captain Bolter said he meant: for he was a strong and self-willed man. There can be no doubt that the Captain had some ground of complaint against Grain: for he had been insulte...
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Handbook to the New Gold-Fields
R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. In 1848 he published his first book, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of N...
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How to Make the Best of Life
But the fact that man may, and often does, make a wrong choice, that he may try to traverse the wrong path, to accomplish the wrong work, and do many things in the wrong way, is a clear proof that his course in life is not arbitrarily fixed, that he ...
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Hudson Bay
CHAPTER ONE.APPOINTMENT TO THE SERVICE OF THE HUDSON BAY COMPANY--THE PRINCERUPERT--THE ANNUAL DINNER OF THE H.B.C.--FELLOW-VOYAGERS--THREATENINGWEATHER--A SQUALL--ISLAND OF LEWIS.Reader,--I take for granted that you are tolerably well acquainted wit...
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Jack Frost and Sons
One year in the last quarter of the present century John Frost, Esquire, of Arctic Hall, paid an unusually long visit to the British Islands. John, or Jack, Frost, as he was familiarly called by those who did not fear him, was a powerful fellow; an a...
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Jim Greely the North Sea Skipper
When Nellie Sumner married James Greely--the strapping skipper of a Yarmouth fishing-smack--there was not a prettier girl in all the town, at least so said, or thought, most of the men and many of the women who dwelt near her. Of course there were di...
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A Knotty Question
"Tom Blunt," said Richard Sharp, "I deny your premises, condemn your reasoning as illogical, and reject your conclusions with scorn " The youth who made this remark with very considerable assurance and emphasis was a student. His fellow-student recei...
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The Life of a Ship
Oh I love the great blue ocean, I love the whistling breeze, When the gallant ship sweeps lightly Across the surging seas. I watched my first ship building; I saw her timbers rise, Until her masts were towering Up in the bright blue skies....
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The Lively Poll: A Tale of the North Sea
R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. In 1848 he published his first book, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of N...
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The Lonely Island: The Refuge of the Mutineers
A ''rest of the story'' account of the famous HMS Bounty mutineers who parted ways with Captain Bligh and company, The Lonely Island follows the mutineers to a remote, uninhabited island where they hope to finish their days in peace and quiet. For...
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The Mdman and the Pirate
A beautiful island lying like a gem on the breast of the great Pacific -- a coral reef surrounding, and a calm lagoon within, on the glass-like surface of which rests a most piratical-looking schooner. Such is the scene to which we invite our readerâ...
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A Northern Waif
If a waif is a lost wanderer, then little Poosk was a decided waif for he had gone very much astray indeed in the North American backwoods. It was a serious matter for an Indian child of six years of age to become a waif in the dead of winter, with f...
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Personal Reminiscences in Book Making
R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. In 1848 he published his first book, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of N...
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The Pioneers: A Tale of the Western Wilderness
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Red Rooney: Or, the Last of the Crew
This story opens in the Arctic Circle as young Red Rooney embarks on a voyage from Greenland. His adventures begin when his boat is crushed by ice and sinks, and he is left on the ice to perish until an Eskimo named Okiok finds him. Living with the E...
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Rescue the Perishing
Proverbial philosophy asserts that the iron should be struck when it is hot. I sympathise with proverbial philosophy in this case, but that teacher says nothing whatever about striking the iron when it is cold; and experience--at least that of blacks...
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Two Remarkable Dreams
Some natures are better than others. There can be no question about that. Some dispositions are born moderately sweet, others are born slightly sour. If you doubt the fact, reader, go study Nature, or get you to an argumentative friend and dispute th...
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Under The Waves
R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. In 1848 he published his first book, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of N...
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