Ballantyne, R.M.

Ballantyne, R.M.

▪ Scottish author
in full  Robert Michael Ballantyne 
born April 24, 1825, Edinburgh, Scot.
died Feb. 8, 1894, Rome, Italy

      Scottish author chiefly famous for his adventure story The Coral Island (1858). This and all of Ballantyne's stories were written from personal experience. The heroes of his books are models of self-reliance and moral uprightness. Snowflakes and Sunbeams; or, The Young Fur Traders (1856) is a boys' adventure story based on Ballantyne's experiences with the Hudson's Bay Company. Annoyed by a geography-related mistake he had made in The Coral Island, he afterward traveled widely to research the backgrounds of his stories.

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