R.M. Ballantyne (Author of The Coral Island)

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R.M. Ballantyne

Born

in Edinburgh, Scotland

April 24, 1825

Died

February 08, 1894

Genre

Fiction, Children's, Travel

Influences

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R. M. Ballantyne was a Scottish writer of juvenile fiction.

Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. At the age of 16 he went to Canada and where he served for six years with the Hudson's Bay Company. He returned to Scotland in 1847, and published his first book the following year, Hudson's Bay: or Life in the Wilds of North America. For some time he was employed by Messrs Constable, the publishers, but in 1856 he gave up business for literature, and began the series of adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated. ...more

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	The Coral Island 3.69 avg rating — 4,668 ratings — published 1857 — 875 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dog Crusoe and His Master: A Story of Adventure in the Western Prairies 4.07 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 1860 — 342 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gorilla Hunters 3.86 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1861 — 238 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wild Man of the West: A Tale of the Rocky Mountains 3.77 avg rating — 215 ratings — published 1863 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Martin Rattler: Adventures of a Boy in the Forests of Brazil 3.91 avg rating — 159 ratings — 364 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hunted and Harried: A Tale of the Scottish Covenanters 4.15 avg rating — 116 ratings — 163 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pirate City: An Algerine Tale 3.92 avg rating — 110 ratings — 195 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cannibal Islands: Captain Cook's Adventures in the South Seas 3.65 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deep Down: A Tale of the Cornish Mines 4.01 avg rating — 90 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Island Queen: Dethroned by Fire and Water: A Tale of the Southern Hemisphere 3.98 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1885 — 86 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - 'Farewell”
― R. M. Ballantyne

tags: coral-island, farewell, goodbye

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“Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and off of trees, etc., in order to strengthen their nervous system... They ought to practice leaping off heights into deep water. They ought never to hesitate to cross a stream over a narrow unsafe plank for fear of a ducking. They ought never to decline to climb up a tree, to pull fruit merely because there is a possibility of their falling off and breaking their necks. I firmly believe that boys were intended to encounter all kinds of risks, in order to prepare them to meet and grapple with risks and dangers incident to man鈥檚 career with cool, cautious self-possession...”
― R. M. Ballantyne

tags: boyhood, child-training, courage

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“...in all my writings I have always tried 鈥� how far successfully I know not 鈥� to advance the cause of Truth and Right and to induce my readers to put their trust in the love of God our Saviour, for this life as well as the life to come.”
― R.M. Ballantyne, Personal Reminiscences In Book Making: and Some Short Stories

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