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Author: Robert Michael Ballantyne
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Pages : 306
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Author: Robert Michael Ballantyne
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Pages : 306
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Author: Robert Michael Ballantyne
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Category : Bantu-speaking peoples
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Pages : 302
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Author: Mrs. Umphelby
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Category : Child rearing
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Pages : 116
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Author: Sir Abe Bailey
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Pages : 1856
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Author: R.M. Ballantyne
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 917
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"MARTIN RATTLER" was one of, Robert Michael Ballantyne's early books. Born at Edinburgh in 1825, [1] he was sent to Rupert's Land as a trading-clerk in the Hudson Bay Fur Company's service when he left school, a boy of sixteen. There, to relieve his home-sickness, he first practised his pen in long letters home to his mother. Soon after his return to Scotland in 1848 he published a first book on Hudson's Bay. Then he passed some years in a Scottish publisher's office; and in 1855 a chance suggestion from another publisher led to his writing his first book for boys-"Snowflakes and Sunbeams, or The Young Fur Traders." That story showed he had found his vocation, and he poured forth its successors to the tune in all of some fourscore volumes. "Martin Rattler" appeared in 1858. In his "Personal Reminiscences" Ballantyne wrote: "How many thousands of lads have an intense liking for the idea of a sailor's life!" and he pointed out there the other side of the romantic picture: the long watches "in dirty unromantic weather," and the hard work of holystoning the decks, scraping down the masts and cleaning out the coal-hole. But though his books show something of this reverse side too, there is no doubt they have helped to set many boys dreaming o
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Pages : 664
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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
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Pages : 1288
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Author: Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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A catalogue of the Osborne Collection at Toronto Public Library which includes books, manuscripts and illustrations.
