Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne

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Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825–1894)

Robert Michael Ballantyne was a Scottish writer of Juvenile fiction. This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Articles written by this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "R. M. B."

Robert Michael Ballantyne

Works

• Battery and the Boiler 1883
• Battles with the Sea 1883
• Big Otter 1887
• Black Ivory 1873
• Blown to Bits 1889
• Blue Lights 1888
• Buffalo Runners 1891
• Butterfly's Ball and Grasshopper's Feast 1857
• Charlie to the Rescue 1890
• Collected Works of Ensign Sopht 1881
• Coral Island 1858
• Coxswain's Bride 1891
• Crew of the Water Wagtail 1889
• Deep Down 1868
• Discovery and Adventure in the Polar Seas 1860
• Dog Crusoe 1861
• Dusty Diamonds 1884
• Eagle Cliff 1889
• Ensign Sopht's Illustrated Volunteer Almanack 1861
• Environs and Vicinity of Edinburgh 1859
• Erling the Bold 1869
• Fighting the Flames 1867
• Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands 1870
• Freaks on the Fells 1865
• Fugitives 1887
• Garrett and the Garden 1890
• Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader 1864
• Giant of the North 1882
• Golden Dream 1861
• Gorilla Hunters 1861
• Handbook to the New Goldfields . . . of the Fraser and Thompson River Gold Mines 1858
• Hot Swamp 1892
• How Not to Do It A Manual for the Awkward Squad 1859
• Hudson's Bay 1848
• Hunted and Harried 1892
• In The Track of the Troops 1878
• Iron Horse 1871
• Island Queen1885
• Jarwin and Cuffy 1878
• Kitten Pilgrims 1882
• Lakes of Killarney 1859
• Life and Adventures of Simon Gupple 1855
• Lifeboat 1864
• Life in the Red Brigade 1873
• Life of a Ship from Launch to Wreck 1857
• Lighthouse 1865
• Lonely Island 1880
• Madman and the Pirate 1883
• Man on the Ocean 1863
• Martin Rattler 1858
• Mee-a-ow, or Good Advice to Cats and Kittens 1859
• Middy and the Moors 1888
• Mister Fox 1857
• My Doggie and I 1881
• My Mother 1857
• Norsemen in the West 1872
• Northern Coasts of America 153
• Ocean and its Wonders 1874
• Personal Reminiscenses in Book-Making 1893
• Philosopher Jack 1880
• Photographs of Edinburgh (by A. Burns) 1868
• Pioneers 1872
• Pirate City 1874
• Post Haste 1880
• Prairie Chief 1886
• Red Eric 1861
• Red Man's Revenge 1880
• Red Rooney 1886
• Reuben's Luck 1896
• Rivers of Ice 1875
• Robber Kitten 1858
• Rover of the Andes 1885
• Settler and the Savage 1877
• Shifting Winds 1866
• Ships; Great Eastern and Lesser Craft 1859
• Silver Lake 1867
• Six Months at the Cape 1879
• Snowflakes and Sunbeams, or the Young Fur traders 1856
• Tales of Adventure on the Sea 1873
• Tales of Adventure by Flood, Field and Mountain 1874
• Tales of Adventure or Wild Work in Strange Places 1874
• Tales of Adventure on the Coast 1875
• Three Little Kittens1856
• Twice Bought 1885
• Under the Waves 1876
• Ungava 1858
• Volunteer Levee 1860
• Walrus Hunters 1893
• Wild Man of the West 1863
• World of Ice 1860
• Young Trawler 1884

Ballantyne's Miscellany

Volumes . . .

• Fighting the Wales 1863
• Away in the Wilderness 1863
• Fast in the Ice 1863
• Chasing the Sun 1864
• Sunk at Sea 1869
• Lost in the Forest 1869
• Over the rocky Mountains 1869
• Saved by the Lifeboat 1869
• Cannibal Islands 1869
• Hunting the Lions 1869
• Digging for Gold 1869
• Up in the Clouds 1869
• Battle and the Breeze 1869
• Pioneers 1875
• Story of the Rock 1875
• Wrecked but not Ruined 1875
• Thorogood Family 1883
• Lively Poll 1886

Contributions to EB1911 (1 signed article)

• “Life-boat” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911. (British (in part))

Works about Ballantyne

• “Ballantyne, Robert Michael” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Obituary: Mr. R. M. Ballantyne” in The Times (1894)
• “The death of Mr. R. M. Ballantyne” in The Times (1894)
• “Death: Robert Michael Ballantyne” in The Times (1894)
• “Letter to the Editor: The Late Mr. R. M. Ballantyne” in The Times (1894)
• “Ballantyne, Robert Michael” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.