Hudson Bay
‹
›
- Browse Category
We Begin at the EndLearn More - Choice Picks
- Top 100 Free Books
- Blog
- Recently Added
- Submit your eBook
By R. M. Ballantyne
14 Jul, 2020
Aged just sixteen, the intrepid young Scotsman Robert M. Ballantyne joined the Hudson's Bay Company. Posted immediately to North-Eastern Canada, he spent five years traversing the region's inhospitable terrain by sleigh and canoe. His journal and let
... Read more
Aged just sixteen, the intrepid young Scotsman Robert M. Ballantyne joined the Hudson's Bay Company. Posted immediately to North-Eastern Canada, he spent five years traversing the region's inhospitable terrain by sleigh and canoe. His journal and letters home were so evocative that, upon his return, he was persuaded to publish an account of his experiences. Combining anthropological observations with descriptions of landscapes, plants, and animals, the account was applauded by the Dundee Courier for 'opening up a mine of information to the curious' and 'describing the everyday life of a novel and singular existence' with 'buoyancy and animation'. Robert Michael Ballantyne 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. 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. Less
- File size
- Print pages
- Publisher
- Language
- ISBN
- 262.337 KB
- 358
- Public Domain Book
- English
- 978-1142205300
Author
Related Books
Boycotted, and Other Stories:
Walter and the Wireless:
Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life:
Just David:
.jpg){kind=logo}
The Pirate City: An Algerine Tale:
Steve and the Steam Engine:
Carl and the Cotton Gin:
The Land of the Long Night:
The Walrus Hunters:
The Powder Monkey:
Christmas With Grandma Elsie:
Mr. Justice Raffles:
My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life:
Sara Crewe Or What Happened at Miss Minchin's Boarding School:
The Dog Crusoe and His Master:
Sentimental Tommy:
The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition:
The Madman and the Pirate:
March Anson and Scoot Bailey of the U.S. Navy:
The Rover Boys in the Jungle; Or, Stirring Adventures in Africa:
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm:
Follow My Leader: The Boys of Templeton:
Dear Enemy:
Mike:
Dave Dawson at Casablanca:
Join us and get access to all your favourite books
It’s free
