| Wrecked but not Ruined by R.M. Ballantyne, Fiction, Action & Adventure Contributor(s): Ballantyne, Robert Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1606642669 ISBN-13: 9781606642665 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2009 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: On the northern shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Cliff Fort has stood for years, carrying on its business of trapping and trade among the natives in isolation, and without competition. Yet new waves of emigration are pushing settlers into even the northernmost wilderness. Now the men of the trading post, led by Englishman Reginald Redding and Scottish-born Bob Smart, find the world growing more complicated, day by day. A family of MacLeods have settled on Jenkins Creek, and have set up a saw mill -- right on the edge of the Company's legally-purchased lands, as if in purposeful provocation. And now the MacLeods are introducing the local Indians to fire-water -- and threatening, worst of all, to steal away the fur trade! R.M. Ballantyne is the author of such adventure tales as "The Pirate City" and "The Dog Crusoe and His Master." |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | War & Military - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.26" H x 6" W x 9" (0.37 lbs) 108 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Ballantyne, R. M.: - "Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825 - 1894) was a Scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote more than 100 books. He was also an accomplished artist and exhibited some of his water-colors at the Royal Scottish Academy. Ballantyne went to Canada aged 16 and spent five years working for the Hudson's Bay Company. He traded with the local Native Americans for furs, which required him to travel by canoe and sleigh to the areas occupied by the modern-day provinces of Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec, experiences that formed the basis of his novel Snowflakes and Sunbeams (1856). His longing for family and home during that period impressed him to start writing letters to his mother. Ballantyne recalled in his autobiographical Personal Reminiscences in Book Making (1893) that "To this long-letter writing I attribute whatever small amount of facility in composition I may have acquired." In 1856 Ballantyne gave up job working for a publishing firm to focus on his literary career and began the series of adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated. The Coral Island (1857) and more than 100 other books followed in regular succession, his rule being in every case to write as far as possible from personal knowledge of the scenes he described." |