The Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne was a master of juvenile adventure novels. His masterpiece ‘The Coral Island’ relates the adventures of three boys marooned on a South Pacific island, being the only survivors of a shipwreck. Ballantyne’s stories are based on personal experience, featuring heroes that are models of self-reliance and moral uprightness. His works left a lasting impression on the course of children’s literature, inspiring, among many others, Robert Louis Stevenson. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Ballantyne’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2)
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Ballantyne’s life and works
* All 85 novels and novellas, with individual contents tables
* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Famous works such as THE CORAL ISLAND are fully illustrated with their original artwork
* Includes Ballantyne’s rare Nursery Tales published under the pseudonym Comus – fully illustrated, with many appearing here for the first time in digital publishing
* A selection of non-fiction, including the rare THE COLLECTED WORKS OF ENSIGN SOPHT, LATE OF THE VOLUNTEERS, available in no other collection and fully illustrated
* Features Ballantyne’s autobiography PERSONAL REMINISCENES IN BOOKEEPING – discover Ballantyne’s intriguing life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
* UPDATED with the rare novel ‘Reuben’s Luck’, first time in digital print
* UPDATED with corrections, improved structure and non-fiction text ‘Life-boat and Life-saving Service’
CONTENTS:
The Novels and Novellas
Snowflakes and Sunbeams (1856)
The Coral Island (1857)
Martin Rattler (1857)
Ungava (1857)
The Dog Crusoe and His Master (1860)
The Golden Dream (1860)
The World of Ice (1860)
The Gorilla Hunters (1861)
The Red Eric (1861)
Away in the Wilderness (1863)
Fighting the Whales (1863)
Man on the Ocean (1863)
Fast in the Ice (1863)
The Wild Man of the West (1863)
Chasing the Sun (1864)
Gascoyne (1864)
The Lifeboat (1864)
Freaks on the Fells (1864)
The Lighthouse (1865)
Shifting Winds (1868)
A Rescue in the Rocky Mountains (1868)
Silver Lake (1868)
Fighting the Flames (1868)
Deep Down (1868)
Erling the Bold (1869)
Lost in the Forest (1869)
Saved by the Lifeboat (1869)
Sunk at Sea (1869)
Over the Rocky Mountains (1869)
Up in the Clouds (1869)
The Cannibal Islands (1869)
Hunting the Lions (1869)
The Battle and the Breeze (1869)
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands (1870)
The Iron Horse (1871)
The Norsemen in the West (1872)
The Pioneers (1872)
Life in the Red Brigade (1873)
Black Ivory (1873)
Fort Desolation (1873)
The Ocean and Its Wonders (1874)
The Pirate City (1874)
Rivers of Ice (1875)
The Story of the Rock (1875)
Under the Waves (1876)
The Settler and the Savage (1877)
In the Track of the Troops (1878)
Jarwin and Cuffy (1878)
Digging for Gold (1879)
Six Months at the Cape (1879)
The Lonely Island (1879)
Philosopher Jack (1879)
Post Haste (1880)
The Red Man’s Revenge (1880)
The Giant of the North (1881)
My Doggie and I (1881)
The Battery and the Boiler (1883)
Battles with the Sea (1883)
The Madman and the Pirate (1883)
The Thoroughgood Family (1883)
Dusty Diamonds, Cut and Polished (1884)
The Young Trawler (1884)
The Island Queen (1885)
The Rover of the Andes (1885)
Twice Bought (1885)
The Prairie Chief (1886)
and more - too many to list
