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  • SCOTTISH DANCE BEYOND 1805
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    SCOTTISH DANCE BEYOND 1805
    PATRICIA BALLANTYNE
    Scottish Dance Beyond 1805 presents a history of Scottish music and dance over the last 200 years, with a focus on sources originating in Aberdeenshire, when steps could be adapted in any way the dancer pleased. The book explains the major changes in the way that dance was taught and performed by chronicling the shift from individual dancing masters to professional, licensed me...

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  • IN THE TRACK OF THE TROOPS
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    IN THE TRACK OF THE TROOPS
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    (Excerpt): “After becoming acquainted with gun-cotton, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, lithofracteur, and other combinations of powerfully-explosive agents, I took to searching for and inventing methods by which these might be utilised. To turn everything to good account, is a desire which I cannot resist. Explosives naturally drew my attention to mines—tin-mines, coal-mines, and ot...

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  • THE WILD MAN OF THE WEST A TALE OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
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    THE WILD MAN OF THE WEST A TALE OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    First published in 1869, “The Wild Man of the West: A Tale of the Rocky Mountains” is a Western fiction novel aimed at children by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. Presented as a series of stories told by “mountain men”, it revolves around the early trappers and hunters of the Rocky Mountains and their tumultuous relationship with the Native Americans. A rip-roaring adventure ...

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  • TWICE BOUGHT
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    TWICE BOUGHT
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    Excerpt: "How long Tolly Trevor remained in a state of horrified surprise no one can tell, for he was incapable of observation at the time, besides being alone. On returning to consciousness he found himself galloping towards the exploded fortress at full speed, and did not draw rein till he approached the bank of the rivulet. Reflecting that a thoroughbred hunter could not cle...

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  • THE GIANT OF THE NORTH POKINGS ROUND THE POLE
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    THE GIANT OF THE NORTH POKINGS ROUND THE POLE
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    This is the tale of a giant Eskimo, Screekinbroot, also called Chingatok. Journey with our young heroes into the frozen tundra and icy waters of the North Pole regions for encounters with Eskimo peoples and to learn about their life and what it is like when the Kabiunets comes to the Arctic. Captain Vane, his son Benjamin, and his two nephews Leo and Alf come in search of the N...

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  • THE BATTLE AND THE BREEZE
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    THE BATTLE AND THE BREEZE
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    When Bill was a baby—a round-faced, large-eyed, fat-legged baby, as unlike to the bronzed, whiskered, strapping seaman who went by the name of “Fighting Bill” as a jackdaw is to a marlinespike—when Bill was a baby, his father used to say he was just cut out for a sailor; and he was right, for the urchin was overflowing with vigour and muscular energy. He was utterly reckless, a...

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  • PHILOSOPHER JACK
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    PHILOSOPHER JACK
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    (Excerpt): “In a humble abode near the said docks a bulky sea-captain lay stretched in his hammock, growling. The prevailing odours of the neighbourhood were tar, oil, fish, and marine-stores. The sea-captain’s room partook largely of the same odours, and was crowded with more than an average share of the stores. It was a particularly small room, with charts, telescopes, speaki...

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  • HUNTING THE LIONS
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    HUNTING THE LIONS
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    Very nice read. Ballantyne does a great job of painting a realistic, gritty picture of Africa, and of safari hunting from in the old days. (Goodreads) ...

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  • FORT DESOLATION RED INDIANS AND FUR TRADERS OF RUPERT'S LAND
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    FORT DESOLATION RED INDIANS AND FUR TRADERS OF RUPERT'S LAND
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    (Excerpt): “Dear Jack,—You’ll be surprised to see my fist, but not more surprised than I was to hear from an old hunter just arrived, that you had taken to farming. It’s not your forte, Jack, my boy. Be advised. Sell off the farm for what it will fetch, and come and join me. My antecedents are not in my favour, I grant; but facts are stubborn things, and it is a fact that I am ...

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  • THE MADMAN AND THE PIRATE
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    THE MADMAN AND THE PIRATE
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    A missionary on a Polynesian island is marooned by pirates on another island far from his wife and flock. Thinking that the same pirates had killed his son he vows revenge. Once faced with his chance of revenge, the missionary hesitates and his action gives him his son back and redeems his soul. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE FUGITIVES THE TYRANT QUEEN OF MADAGASCAR
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    THE FUGITIVES THE TYRANT QUEEN OF MADAGASCAR
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    (Excerpt): "It is almost allowable, I think, to say that this is a true story, for fiction has only been introduced for the purpose of piecing together and making a symmetrical whole of a number of most interesting facts in regard to Madagascar and the terrible persecutions that took place there in the early part and middle of the present century. I have ventured to modify time...

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  • PERSONAL REMINISCENCES AND SOME SHORT STORIES
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    PERSONAL REMINISCENCES AND SOME SHORT STORIES
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    This book is just what it says it is, an account of the life and adventures of R. M. Ballantyne, as written by himself; there's some short stories in the back too. I would highly recommend this book, especially if you've read any of his books and are curious about the man who wrote them. Its humorous and full of adventure. (Amazon) ...

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  • THE ISLAND QUEEN
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    THE ISLAND QUEEN
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    Castaways in a sea of danger! Pauline, Otto, and Dominick were children cast into the wild South Sea's ocean. The brave Rigonda family of England, however, clung to life on their lifeboat despite the demise of the rest of the castaways, searching weakly for a sail in the distance. Instead, they found a dead ship, wrecked on a reef. And the reef, most fortunately, was by an isla...

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  • THE LIGHTHOUSE THE STORY OF A GREAT FIGHT BETWEEN MAN AND THE SEA
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    THE LIGHTHOUSE THE STORY OF A GREAT FIGHT BETWEEN MAN AND THE SEA
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    Excerpt: "Early on a summer morning, about the beginning of the nineteenth century, two fishermen of Forfarshire wended their way to the shore, launched their boat, and put off to sea. One of the men was tall and ill-favoured, the other, short and well-favoured. Both were square-built, powerful fellows, like most men of the class to which they belonged. It was about that calm h...

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  • THE CORAL ISLAND
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    THE CORAL ISLAND
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    A teenaged boy that goes by "Ralph" is from a long family line seamen. As he gets older his desire for freedom on the sea grows. He is finally allowed to go to sea. He meets two other boys, Jack and Peterkin. Jack being older than Ralph, and Peterkin being younger than him. The three become best friends and are shipwrecked on a Pacific Island and are all alone to fend for thems...

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  • SUNK AT SEA
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    SUNK AT SEA
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    (Excerpt): "Baby Will’s mother was a gentle and loving, but weak woman. His father, William Horace Osten by name, was a large, hearty, affectionate, but coarse man. He appreciated his wife’s gentle, loving nature, but could not understand her weakness. She admired her husband’s manly, energetic spirit, but could not understand his roughness. He loved the baby, and resolved to “...

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  • THE WORLD OF ICE OR THE WHALING CRUISE OF
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    THE WORLD OF ICE OR THE WHALING CRUISE OF "THE DOLPHIN" AND THE ADVENTURES OF HER CREW IN THE POLAR REGIONS
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    The stores, in order to relieve the strain on the ship, were removed to Store Island, and snugly housed under the tent erected there, and then a thick bank of snow was heaped up round it. After this was accomplished, all the boats were hauled up beside the tent, and covered with snow, except the two quarter-boats, which were left hanging at the davits all winter. When the therm...

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  • THE IRON HORSE
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    THE IRON HORSE
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    Excerpt: "Talk of earthquakes! not all the earthquakes that have rumbled in Ecuador or toppled over the spires and dwellings of Peru could compare, in the matter of dogged pertinacity, with that earthquake which diurnally and hourly shocked little Gertie’s dwelling, quivered the white dimity curtains of little Gertie’s bed and shook little Gertie’s frame. A graceful, rounded li...

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  • MY DOGGIE AND I
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    MY DOGGIE AND I
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    Written in 1881, My Doggie And I tells the story of John Mellon (almost a doctor in chapter one) and what happens to him after he meets a certain little canine. Mellon is out walking one day when a wild-looking creature comes running towards him along the dirt road... (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE LONELY ISLAND THE REFUGE OF THE MUTINEERS
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    THE LONELY ISLAND THE REFUGE OF THE MUTINEERS
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    In this story, the follow-up look at what happened with the escaped mutineers of the famous ship the H.M.S. Bounty. It begins with a recounting of the famous mutiny and the casting adrift of Captain Bligh instigated by Fletcher Christian and his comrades due to severe treatment of the men by the infamous Captain. After a brief stay on the island of Otaheite the mutineers finall...

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  • THE LIFEBOAT A TALE OF OUR COAST HEROES
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    THE LIFEBOAT A TALE OF OUR COAST HEROES
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    Like a lot of R.M. Ballantyne's books this is about the sea. The British life boat service. Many storms and life saving adventures take place and adventure abounds. (Amazon) ...

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  • UNGAVA
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    UNGAVA
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    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 exped...

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  • SAVED BY THE LIFEBOAT
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    SAVED BY THE LIFEBOAT
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    (Excerpt): "On a dark November afternoon, not many years ago, Captain Boyns sat smoking his pipe in his own chimney-corner, gazing with a somewhat anxious expression at the fire. There was cause for anxiety, for there raged at the time one of the fiercest storms that ever blew on the shores of England. The wind was howling in the chimney with wild fury; slates and tiles were be...

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  • THE PIRATE CITY AN ALGERINE TALE
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    THE PIRATE CITY AN ALGERINE TALE
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    The Pirate City is a story about the Algerian pirates who were the scourge of the Mediterranean sea during the early to mid-1800s. They would plunder the ships of other sovereign nations, and as a result were a wealthy little city-state until their demise in the Barbary War. In this tale, set during the heyday of the pirates, a merchant and his sons Mariano and Lucien are captu...

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  • ERLING THE BOLD
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    ERLING THE BOLD
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    This is a tale of a Sea-rover, or Viking as they're called. In the author's own words: The present tale is founded chiefly on the information conveyed in that most interesting work by Snorro Sturleson 'The Heimskringla, or Chronicles of the Kings of Norway.' It is translated from the Icelandic. On perceiving the intention of the Danes to attack him, Erling's heart was glad, bec...

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  • MAN ON THE OCEAN A BOOK ABOUT BOATS AND SHIPS
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    MAN ON THE OCEAN A BOOK ABOUT BOATS AND SHIPS
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    Excerpt: "Ships are, as it were, the electric sparks of the world, by means of which the superabundance of different countries is carried forth to fill, reciprocally, the voids in each. They are not only the media of intercourse between the various families of the human race, whereby our shores are enriched with the produce of other lands, but they are the bearers of inestimabl...

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  • THE LIFE OF A SHIP
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    THE LIFE OF A SHIP
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    Excerpt: "Davy was a fisher boy; and Davy was a very active little boy; and Davy wanted to go to sea. His father was a fisherman, his grandfather had been a fisherman, and his great-grandfather had been a fisherman: so we need not wonder much that little Davy took to the salt water like a fish. When he was very little he used to wade in it, and catch crabs in it, and gather she...

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  • THE PIONEERS A TALE OF THE WESTERN WILDERNESS
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    THE PIONEERS A TALE OF THE WESTERN WILDERNESS
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    Excerpt: "Sitting under a pine-tree, in the wild wilderness that lies to the north of Canada with the drumstick of a goose in one hand and a scalping-knife in the other; with a log-fire in front of him, and his son, a stripling of sixteen, by his side, he delivered himself of the following sentiments..." ...

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  • AWAY IN THE WILDERNESS
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    AWAY IN THE WILDERNESS
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    This is the story of Jasper Derry, a Canadian trapper who is traveling to Fort Erie to marry his fiancé and begin a family. It includes John Heywood's adventure with a ferocious grizzly bear and the evil machinations of Darkeye, an Indian chief. A classic for young readers, ages about 12-16 or so, and great for adults as an action/adventure tale set in the wilderness in the 180...

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  • FIGHTING THE WHALES
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    FIGHTING THE WHALES
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    This is one of the few Ballantynes that is written in first person narrative. This book follows a penniless, fatherless boy as he goes to sea to make money for his mother. It includes several educational parts about the harvesting of oil from whales. (Goodreads) ...

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