| Ungava by R.M. Ballantyne, Fiction, Classics, Action & Adventure Contributor(s): Ballantyne, Robert Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1606645951 ISBN-13: 9781606645956 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $24.26 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2009 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: IN THE LAND OF THE FUR TRADER AND THE ESKIMO Brave were the white men who risked the life, limb and family in the chill of the Great White North. But this New World beckoned, full of danger but also of vast promise. The Hudson Bay Trading Company had tried to establish a treaty of peace between the Muskigon Indians of James Bay and the Eskimo of Hudson's Straits -- but violence still erupted. Here is the story of an expedition from Moose Fort into the wild. Here is that tale of the brave traders George Stanley and Frank Morton, Dick Prince the hunter, Massan their guide and the others including Mrs. Stanley and the Stanley's young daughter Edith. Here are their adventures. And here, most memorably, is the noble giant Eskimo Maximus. This is an exciting story of a time long ago, but still living in the top of Canada -- and in legend! |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.20 lbs) 256 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" |