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Author : Eric Quayle
Publisher : London : Hart-Davis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ballantyne the Brave written by Eric Quayle and published by London : Hart-Davis. This book was released on 1967 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. M. Ballantyne
Publisher : LA CASE Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cannibal Islands written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by LA CASE Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Cannibal Islands' is a historical novel by prolific author R.M. Ballantyne. In it, he gives some background to the world-wide explorations of the famous Captain Cook. Ballantyne uses detailed descriptions of the customs and habits of those who Captain Cook encountered to flesh out the adventures of the famous explorer. Ballantyne is particularly fascinated by the habit of cannibalism practised by some of the people that Cook encountered. Very much of it's time, this is nevertheless a fascinating and insightful read.
Author : R. M. Ballantyne
Publisher : VM eBooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Battles with the Sea written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by VM eBooks. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9358595868
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (585 download)
Download or read book "Lost In The Forest" written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lost in the Forest" is an enthralling adventure novel written by R.M. Ballantyne. The story takes readers on a thrilling journey through the untamed wilderness as they follow the experiences of the young protagonist, Ralph Rover. Set in the 19th century, the book begins with Ralph, a teenage sailor, surviving a shipwreck and finding himself stranded in an unfamiliar forest. Alone and facing the challenges of the wilderness, Ralph must rely on his resourcefulness, courage, and survival skills to navigate the harsh environment. As Ralph explores the forest, he encounters various obstacles, including dangerous animals, hostile natives, and treacherous landscapes. Along the way, he forges unlikely friendships, learns from the wisdom of indigenous people, and discovers hidden secrets about the land. The novel not only provides a gripping narrative but also offers insights into the power of human ingenuity, the importance of respecting nature, and the bonds of friendship.
Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher : Thomas Nelson and Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Coral Island written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by Thomas Nelson and Sons. This book was released on 1884 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Iain Ballantyne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681779439
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book The Deadly Deep written by Iain Ballantyne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and comprehensive account of how an initially ineffectual underwater boat—originally derided and loathed in equal measure—evolved into the most powerful and terrifying vessel ever invented—with enough destructive power to end all life on Earth. Iain Ballantyne considers the key episodes of submarine warfare and vividly describes the stories of brave individuals who have risked their lives under the sea, often with fatal consequences. His analysis of underwater conflict begins with Archimedes discovering the Principle of Buoyancy. Our clandestine journey then moves through the centuries and focuses on prolific characters with deathly motives, including David Bushnell, who in 1775 in America devised the first combat submarine with the idea of attacking the British. Today, nuclear-powered submarines are among the most complex, costly ships in existence. Armed with nuclear weapons, they have the ability to destroy millions of lives: they are the most powerful warships ever created. At the heart of this thrilling narrative lurks danger and power as we discover warfare’s murkiest secrets.
Author : Jane Louise Curry
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892367634
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (676 download)
Download or read book Brave Cloelia written by Jane Louise Curry and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the experiences of an Ancient Roman girl at the hands of the Etruscan king Larth Porsena.
Author : Jeffrey Richards
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152612355X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Imperialism and juvenile literature written by Jeffrey Richards and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age. Never was this truer than in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when it reflected the nationalist and imperialist ideologies current throughout Europe. It both reflects popular attitudes, ideas and preconceptions and it generates support for selected views and opinions. This book examines the various media through which nationalist ideas were conveyed in late-Victorian and Edwardian times: in the theatre, "ethnic" shows, juvenile literature, education and the iconography of popular art. It seeks to examine in detail the articulation and diffusion of imperialism in the field of juvenile literature by stressing its pervasiveness across boundaries of class, nation and gender. It analyses the production, distribution and marketing of imperially-charged juvenile fiction, stressing the significance of the Victorians' discovery of adolescence, technological advance and educational reforms as the context of the great expansion of such literature. An overview of the phenomenon of Robinson Crusoe follows, tracing the process of its transformation into a classic text of imperialism and imperial masculinity for boys. The imperial commitment took to the air in the form of the heroic airmen of inter-war fiction. The book highlights that athleticism, imperialism and militarism become enmeshed at the public schools. It also explores the promotion of imperialism and imperialist role models in fiction for girls, particularly Girl Guide stories.
Author : Rebecca Knuth
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810885166
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Children's Literature and British Identity written by Rebecca Knuth and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's Literature and British Identity: Imagining a People and a Nation is the story of the development of English children's literature, focusing on how stories inspire children to adhere to the values of society. Such English authors as Lewis Carroll, J.R.R. Tolkien, and J.K. Rowling have entertained, inspired, confronted social wrongs, and transmitted cultural values--functions previously associated with folklore. Their stories form a new folklore tradition that grounds personal identity, provides social glue, and supports a love of England and English values. This book examines how this tradition came to fruition.
Author : R. M. Ballantyne
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726986981
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (269 download)
Download or read book The Pirate City written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A merchant and his two sons leave Sicily on a voyage, but they are soon interrupted by a pirate from Algiers. When he takes them captive, they must fight not only for their own survival but also to forget the atrocities that they witness. An exciting historical tale of brutality, survival, and humanity, this is perfect for fans of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Treasure Island’. Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825 - 1894) was a Scottish author. Born into a family of famous printers and publishers, his expertise in juvenile fiction was undisputed, and he wrote over 100 hugely successful books in this genre. The most notable of these include ‘The Coral Island’, ‘The Eagle Cliff’, and ‘The Gorilla Hunters’. Famed for his tendency to fully immerse himself into the environment of whichever story he was working on, his lively prose is unmissable for those who enjoyed Matt Haig’s ‘The Midnight Library’.
Author : Laura Frantz
Publisher : Revell
ISBN 13 : 9780800720421
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Love's Awakening written by Laura Frantz and published by Revell. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellie Ballantyne, youngest child of Silas and Eden, has left finishing school. But back at her family home in Pittsburgh, Ellie finds that her parents are away on a long trip and her siblings don't seem to want her to stay. When she opens a day school for young ladies, she begins tutoring the incorrigible daughter of the enemy Turlock clan. The Turlocks are slaveholders and whiskey magnates, envious of the powerful Ballantynes and suspicious of their abolitionist leanings. As Ellie becomes increasingly tangled with the Turlocks, she finds herself falling in love with an impossible future--and Jack Turlock, a young man striving to free himself from his family's violent legacy. How can she betray her family and side with the enemy? And will Jack ever allow her into his world? Masterful storyteller Laura Frantz continues to unfold the stirring saga of the Ballantyne family in this majestic tale of love, loyalty, and the makings of a legacy. With rich descriptions of the people who settled and civilized a wild landscape, Frantz weaves a tapestry of characters and places that stick with the reader long after they turn the last page.
Author : Bernard Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199299595
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Absent-minded Imperialists written by Bernard Porter and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British empire was a huge enterprise. To foreigners it more or less defined Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its repercussions in the wider world are still with us today. It also had a great impact on Britain herself: for example, on her economy, security, population, and eating habits. One might expect this to have been reflected in her society and culture. Indeed, this has now become the conventional wisdom: that Britain was steeped in imperialism domestically, which affected (or infected) almost everything Britons thought, felt, and did. This is the first book to examine this assumption critically against the broader background of contemporary British society. Bernard Porter, a leading imperial historian, argues that the empire had a far lower profile in Britain than it did abroad. Many Britons could hardly have been aware of it for most of the nineteenth century and only a small number was in any way committed to it. Between these extremes opinions differed widely over what was even meant by the empire. This depended largely on class, and even when people were aware of the empire, it had no appreciable impact on their thinking about anything else. Indeed, the influence far more often went the other way, with perceptions of the empire being affected (or distorted) by more powerful domestic discourses. Although Britain was an imperial nation in this period, she was never a genuine imperial society. As well as showing how this was possible, Porter also discusses the implications of this attitude for Britain and her empire, and for the relationship between culture and imperialism more generally, bringing his study up to date by including the case of the present-day USA.
Author : Fuller Jennifer Fuller
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474413862
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Dark Paradise written by Fuller Jennifer Fuller and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the way in which the British transformed the Pacific islands during the nineteenth centuryThe discovery of the Pacific islands amplified the qualities of mystery and exoticism already associated with 'foreign' islands. Their 'savage' peoples, their isolation, and their sheer beauty fascinated British visitors across the long nineteenth century. Dark Paradise argues that while the British originally believed the islands to be commercial paradises or perfect sites for missionary endeavours, as the century progressed, their optimistic vision transformed to portray darker realities. As a result, these islands act as a 'breaking point' for British theories of imperialism, colonialism, and identity. The book traces the changing British attitudes towards imperial settlement as the early view of 'island as paradise' gives way to a fear of the hostile islanders and examines how this revelation undermined a key tenant of British imperialism - that they were the 'superior' or 'civilized' islanders.Key FeaturesThe first monograph to trace the Pacific islands as represented through the lens of British fiction and non-fiction across the long nineteenth centuryExamines texts written by Pacific islanders and published in the British pressSignificantly broadens our understanding of the British Pacific by analysing understudied Pacific texts and authors alongside more canonical works
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Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Freeman written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilbur Smith
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848128541
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Cloudburst written by Wilbur Smith and published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brand new Wilbur Smith series for readers of 10+ - starring fourteen-year-old Jack Courtney. Jack Courtney has lived in the UK his whole life. But this summer his parents are travelling to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a gorilla conference, and they've promised to take Jack and his friends with them. When his parents go missing in the rainforest, abducted by mercenaries, nobody seems to have any answers. Jack is pretty sure that it's got something to do with the nearby tantalum mines, but he needs to prove it. Along with Amelia and Xander, Jack must brave the jungle to save his parents. Standing in his way is a member of his own family - Caleb Courtney. There are western gorillas, forest elephants and hippos. But there are also bandits, mercenaries and poachers. The three friends will need their wits about them if they are not only to save Jack's parents, but their own lives too.
Author : Richard Clarke Davis
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1895176883
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Lobsticks and Stone Cairns written by Richard Clarke Davis and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lobsticks and stone cairns are landmarks that mark paths and commemorate events. The one hundred biographies in this book also offer themselves as paths to be taken. Centuries of human endeavour, hardship, folly, and suffering are collapsed into stories through which we can discover what the Arctic is and has been. Profiled in this book are "human landmarks" dating from as far back as the sixteenth century to those still active in the North today. Included are stories of adventurers, military officers, authors, guides, culture heroes, police, traders, and even the occasional charlatan. The biographies are of Inuit, European, American, Indian, and Canadian men and women. What appears here is the essence of each person, rendered by an expert and put in a new context, bringing the history and geography of the North to life.
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Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Ballantyne's Novelist's Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
