By: Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825-1894) |
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Lost in the Forest Wandering Will's Adventures in South America
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Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader
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Over the Rocky Mountains Wandering Will in the Land of the Redskin
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Post Haste
In this book, Ballantyne weaves the story of Phillip Mayland and his friend, George Aspel with an interesting portrayal of the British Post Office as it existed in the 19th century. In the words of R. M. Ballantyne himself: "This tale is founded chiefly on facts furnished by the Postmaster-General’s Annual Reports, and gathered, during personal intercourse and investigation, at the General Post-Office of London and its Branches.
It is intended to illustrate—not by any means to exhaust—the subject of postal work, communication, and incident throughout the Kingdom...
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Rivers of Ice
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The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue
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The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands
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The Life of a Ship
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Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade
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Silver Lake
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Hunting the Lions
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Island Queen
The story of Dominic, Otto and Pauline Rigonda, three siblings who are blown onto an island after being shipwrecked, and are later joined by the immigrant passengers and crew of a ship that is wrecked on the same island. When the question of government comes up, the little colony chooses a queen, and they work on improving the island for some time, despite internal dissensions, and an attack by savages. But eventually the colony encounters natural forces it cannot resist, and the queen and her family return to England, hopefully to live "happily ever after".
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Fighting the Whales
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The Thorogood Family
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The Settler and the Savage
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The Lighthouse
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The Young Fur Traders
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Red Rooney The Last of the Crew
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Jarwin and Cuffy
Jarwin is an English sailor who has been shipwrecked. He is stranded on a raft with only his dog Cuffy, and land is nowhere in sight. Their food and water is running out. What can Jarwin do to save his dog's (and his own) life?
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The Hot Swamp
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The Crew of the Water Wagtail
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The Young Trawler
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Erling the Bold
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Chasing the Sun
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Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago
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Fighting the Flames
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The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood
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The World of Ice
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Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn
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Hunted and Harried
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The Battle and the Breeze
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Fort Desolation Red Indians and Fur Traders of Rupert's Land
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Martin Rattler
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Sunk at Sea
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Wrecked but not Ruined
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Saved by the Lifeboat
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Martin Rattler
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Fighting the Whales
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Twice Bought
This story is set in the gold fields of Oregon, where Tom Brixton, and his best friend, Fred Westly, are digging gold to try to “make their pile”. Before leaving England, the steady and God-fearing Fred had promised Tom's mother that he would do his best to take care of his friend, but in spite of all his efforts, Tom had fallen in with bad companions and taken to gambling. He was convinced that he could make his fortune quicker by attempting to increase it at the dice or card table, and all his friend's attempts to make him see his errors were unavailing...
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The Story of the Rock
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Jeff Benson, or the Young Coastguardsman
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The Lighthouse
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The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains
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By: Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) |
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Kim
Present day readers live in a world that's emerged from the Cold War and the endless rivalry of the Super Powers but this book goes back and traces the origins of the conflict and mutual antagonism between nations.
Kim by Rudyard Kipling is set against the background of the Great Game as it was called the tug-of-war between Britain and Russia for the control of Central Asia. The novel's action takes place during the Anglo-Afghan Wars of 1839-42. The novel's sweeping narrative, the depth of character and the sheer historical scale make it a first rate story...
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Captains Courageous
Real men don’t take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the “We’re Here”, a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the Atlantic. There’s no place on the Grand Banks for bystanders, so Harvey is press-ganged into service as a replacement for a man lost overboard and drowned. Harvey is heir to a vast fortune, but his rescuers believe none of what he tells them of his background. Disko won’t take the boat to port until it is full of fish, so Harvey must settle in for a season at sea...
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Stalky and Co.
Rudyard Kipling published Stalky & Co. in 1899. Set at an English boarding school in a seaside town on the North Devon coast. (The town, Westward Ho!, is not only unusual in having an exclamation mark, but also in being itself named after a novel, by Charles Kingsley.) The book is a collection of linked short stories, with some information about the eponymous Stalky’s later life. Beetle, one of the main trio, is said to be based on Kipling himself, while Stalky may be based on Lionel Dunsterville...
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