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  • THE BALLANTYNE-LOCKHART CONTROVERSY
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    THE BALLANTYNE-LOCKHART CONTROVERSY
    JAMES BALLANTYNE / J. G. LOCKHART
    Originally published in 1974, The Ballantyne-Lockhart Controversy is reprint of three tracts concerning the Ballantyne - Lockhard controversy. Lockhart was the son-in-law of Sir Walter Scott and he made the claim that the Ballantynes played a key role in the financial ruin of Scott. The Ballantynes denied the charges. This book reveals much of interest on publishing and authors...

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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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  • 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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  • FAST IN THE ICE ADVENTURES IN THE POLAR REGIONS
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    FAST IN THE ICE ADVENTURES IN THE POLAR REGIONS
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    One day, many years ago, a brig cast off from her moorings, and sailed from a British port for the Polar Seas. That brig never came back. Many a hearty cheer was given, many a kind wish was uttered, many a handkerchief was waved, and many a tearful eye gazed that day as the vessel left Old England, and steered her course into the unknown regions of the far north. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE WALRUS HUNTERS A ROMANCE OF THE REALMS OF ICE
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    THE WALRUS HUNTERS A ROMANCE OF THE REALMS OF ICE
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    (Excerpt): "A Surprise, a Combat, and a Feed. There is a river in America which flows to the north-westward of Great Bear Lake, and helps to drain that part of the great wilderness into the Arctic Sea. It is an insignificant stream compared with such well-known waterways as the Mackenzie and the Coppermine; nevertheless it is large enough to entice the white-whale and the seal ...

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  • BLACK IVORY A TALE OF ADVENTURE AMONG THE SLAVERS OF EAST AFRICA
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    BLACK IVORY A TALE OF ADVENTURE AMONG THE SLAVERS OF EAST AFRICA
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    An adventure story based on the history of the slave trade as practiced until the late nineteenth century. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE STORY OF THE ROCK
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    THE STORY OF THE ROCK
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    (Excerpt): "Mrs Potter was a woman of large body and small brain. In respect of reasoning power, she was little better than the wooden cuckoo which came out periodically from the interior of the clock that stood over her own fireplace and announced the hours. She entertained settled convictions on a few subjects, in regard to which she resembled a musical box. If you set her go...

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  • THE GORILLA HUNTERS
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    THE GORILLA HUNTERS
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    Published three years after his phenomenally successful "The Coral Island", ""The Gorilla Hunters" finds Ballantyne bringing back three friends from previous novel but this time they are grown up men and instead of Pacific, the story is set somewhere in Africa. (Goodreads) ...

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  • FIGHTING THE FLAMES
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    FIGHTING THE FLAMES
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    Fighting the flames, a tale of the London fire brigade. Frank Wilders is a bright, shining young star rising to distinguished heroism in the London Fire Brigade. No one is more proud of his accomplishments than his younger brother, Willie. As Frank battles the flames, Willie learns what the heart of a hero is made of. Through daring rescues, valiant hard work, plots of arson, a...

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  • CHASING THE SUN OR RAMBLES IN NORWAY
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    CHASING THE SUN OR RAMBLES IN NORWAY
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    Excerpt: "Fred Temple was a tall, handsome young fellow of about five-and-twenty. He had a romantic spirit, a quiet gentlemanly manner, a pleasant smile, and a passionate desire for violent exercise. To look at him you would have supposed that he was rather a lazy man, for all his motions were slow and deliberate. He was never in a hurry, and looked as if it would take a great ...

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  • WRECKED BUT NOT RUINED
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    WRECKED BUT NOT RUINED
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    Set in the outback of Canada this book unfolds in the area with which Ballantyne was so familiar. If you like to read about this area you will find lots in this book to amuse you. (Excerpt from Chapter I): "On the northern shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence there stood, not very long ago, a group of wooden houses, which were simple in construction and lowly in aspect. The reg...

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  • JEFF BENSON OR THE YOUNG COASTGUARDSMAN
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    JEFF BENSON OR THE YOUNG COASTGUARDSMAN
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    (Excerpt): ““Well, Jeff, what d’you think of doing?” asked that austere relative, two days after the funeral. “Of course at your age you can’t carry on the school alone.” “Of course not,” answered the boy, with a suppressed sob. “What say you to entering my office and becoming a lawyer, Jeff?” “Thanks, uncle, I’d rather not.” “What will you do, then?” demanded the uncle, somewh...

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  • THE YOUNG TRAWLER
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    THE YOUNG TRAWLER
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    (Excerpt): “On a certain breezy morning in October—not many years ago—a wilderness of foam rioted wildly over those dangerous sands which lie off the port of Yarmouth, where the Evening Star, fishing-smack, was getting ready for sea. In one of the narrow lanes or “Rows” peculiar to that town, the skipper of the smack stood at his own door, grumbling. He was a broad burly man, a...

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  • THE YOUNG FUR TRADERS
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    THE YOUNG FUR TRADERS
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    This is the story of the hard life of a trapper in Canada in the early 1800s. Charlie Kennedy lives in the Canadian arctic colony known as the Red River Settlement with Indians, Scotsmen, and French-Canadian settlers. His father, an old fur trader, hopes to convince his son to become a clerk by recounting the dangers of the trapper’s life, but the stories only inspire the boy m...

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  • THE CANNIBAL'S ISLANDS CAPTAIN COOK ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS
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    THE CANNIBAL'S ISLANDS CAPTAIN COOK ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    Story of Captain James Cook of the British Navy and his explorations of the South Seas including Tahiti around 1760. Ballantype called some of the islands the Cannibal Islands due to reports of cannibalism. This short book contains some discussions of things like breadfruit, and how it was prepared. Captain Cooks arrival was to essentially to stone age societies, that did not h...

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  • MARTIN RATTLER ADVENTURES OF A BOY IN HE FORESTS OF BRAZIL
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    MARTIN RATTLER ADVENTURES OF A BOY IN HE FORESTS OF BRAZIL
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    Martin Rattler is the story of a mischievous young boy with a good heart. By mistake, he winds up on the ship Firefly with his friend Barney O Flannagan, headed to the South Seas. Escaping pirates and surviving a shipwreck, the two explore South America in one frolicking adventure after another. A thoroughly delightful read, you will follow these young adventurers as they canoe...

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  • THE BIG OTTER
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    THE BIG OTTER
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    This book is actually not about otters; Big Otter is an Indian chief, and the story details the adventures of fur traders as they establish a wilderness outpost in the harsh Canadian wilderness. (Amazon) ...

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  • THE FLOATING LIGHT OF THE GOODWIN SANDS
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    THE FLOATING LIGHT OF THE GOODWIN SANDS
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    Excerpt: "This tale, reader—if you read it through—will give you some insight into the condition, value, and vicissitudes of the light-vessels, or floating lighthouses, which guard the shores of this kingdom, and mark the dangerous shoals lying off some of our harbours and roadsteads. It will also convey to you—if you don’t skip—a general idea of the life and adventures of some...

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  • UNDER THE WAVES DIVING IN DEEP WATERS
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    UNDER THE WAVES DIVING IN DEEP WATERS
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    Historic look at deep diving procedures and apparatus, very enlightening! (Amazon) ...

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  • THE CREW OF THE WATER WAGTAIL
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    THE CREW OF THE WATER WAGTAIL
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    (Excerpt): "It is evident that the land over there is peopled with savages who, probably, never saw white men before. If we treat these young fellows kindly, and send them away with gifts in their hands, we shall, no doubt, make friends of the savages. If we treat them ill, or kill them, their relations will come over, mayhap in swarms, and drive us into the sea. I drop the Swi...

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  • CHARLIE TO THE RESCUE
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    CHARLIE TO THE RESCUE
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    The story follows Charlie Brooke, a kind and wonderful man, and his friends in adventures that range in location from the sea with all of its perils, to the slums of London, to the rugged wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. The story is full of adventure and includes ship wrecks as well as the classic cowboy and Indian combination which can never go wrong! (Amazon) ...

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  • BATTLES WITH THE SEA
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    BATTLES WITH THE SEA
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    Excerpt: "Though our foe cannot be slain, he can, like the genii of Eastern story, be baffled. In the days of old, the Storm had it nearly all his own way. Hearts, indeed, were not less brave, but munitions of war were wanting. In this matter, as in everything else, the world is better off now than it was then. Our weapons are more perfect, our engines more formidable. We can n...

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  • THE BUFFALO RUNNERS A TALE OF THE RED RIVER PLAINS
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    THE BUFFALO RUNNERS A TALE OF THE RED RIVER PLAINS
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    Travel back in time to the land near the Red River, when the Hudson Bay Company and the North West Company were in competition for the furs and other items of trade. Join the settlers, from Scotland, Switzerland, Canada, as they struggle for survival in a harsh land. Easy to fall in love with the characters and how they deal with adversity. Takes place in 1821. (Amazon) ...

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  • THE OCEAN AND ITS WONDERS
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    THE OCEAN AND ITS WONDERS
    R. M. BALLANTYNE
    A delightful way to learn of our world while giving credit where credit is due. This was just one of Ballantyne's works. (Goodreads) ...

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