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Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894

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Robert Michael Ballantyne

R. M. Ballantyne
Born:	April 24, 1825 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died:	February 8, 1894 Rome, Italy
Occupation:	Writer
Nationality:	Scottish
Writing period:	19th century
Genres:	Juvenile fiction/young adult literature

R. M. Ballantyne (April 24, 1825 – February 8, 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.

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), Deep Down (1868), The Pirate City (1874), Erling the Bold (1869), The Settler and the Savage (1877), and other books, to the number of upwards of a hundred, followed in regular succession, his rule being in every case to write as far as possible from personal knowledge of the scenes he described.

His stories had the merit of being thoroughly healthy in tone and possessed considerable graphic force. Ballantyne was also no mean artist, and exhibited some of his water-colours at the Royal Scottish Academy. He lived in later years at Harrow, and died in Rome, Italy, where he had gone to attempt to shake off the results of overwork. He wrote a volume of Personal Reminiscences of Book-making (1893).

External links

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Works by R. M. Ballantyne at Project Gutenberg
• R. M. Ballantyne at Fantastic Fiction
• The Pirate City by R. M. Ballantyne

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Books

Away in the Wilderness
The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables
Battles with the Sea
The Big Otter
Black Ivory
Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata
Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan
The Butterfly's Ball The Grasshopper's Feast
The Butterfly's Ball The Grasshopper's Feast
Charlie to the Rescue
The Coral Island A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
The Coral Island A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
The Coral Island
The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue
The Crew of the Water Wagtail
Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines
Digging for Gold Adventures in California
The Dog Crusoe and His Master A Story of Adventure in the Western Prairies
The Dog Crusoe and his Master
Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure
Erling the Bold
Fighting the Whales
Fighting the Whales
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands
Fort Desolation Red Indians and Fur Traders of Rupert's Land
The Garret and the Garden
Gascoyne, The Sandal Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific
The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole
The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West
The Gorilla Hunters
The Hot Swamp
Hudson Bay
Hunted and Harried
Hunting the Lions
In the Track of the Troops
The Iron Horse
The Island Queen
Jarwin and Cuffy
Jeff Benson, or the Young Coastguardsman
Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade
The Life of a Ship
The Lifeboat
The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse
The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers
The Madman and the Pirate
Martin Rattler
Martin Rattler
The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story
Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships
My Doggie and I
The Norsemen in the West
The Ocean and its Wonders
Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories
Philosopher Jack
The Pioneers
The Pirate City An Algerine Tale
Post Haste
The Prairie Chief
The Red Eric
The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood
Red Rooney The Last of the Crew
Rivers of Ice
The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America
The Settler and the Savage
Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn
Silver Lake
Six Months at the Cape
Twice Bought
Ungava
Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages
The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice
The World of Ice
The World of Ice
The Young Fur Traders
The Young Fur Traders
The Young Trawler

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