Author: Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: moors, middy
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: $22.99
ISBN-10: 055436963X
ISBN-13: 9780554369631

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 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. The Young Fur-Traders (1856), The Coral Island (1857), The World of Ice (1859), Ungava: A Tale o