Young Fur Traders - Ballantyne

by Robert Michael Ballantyne

Overview

Charlie Kennedy explifies the lifestyle of a trapper; living in the Red River Settlement in Canada in the early 1800s, he explores the vast Canadian wilderness, despite his fathers' wishes to the contrary. Charlies traps across the "New world" by traveling both river and land, surviving his adventures with his Indian friend "Red Feather." Discover the life of a trapper with this historically-based novel.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016794167
Publisher:	Romeo Publications
Publication date:	06/06/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	506 KB

About the Author

R. M. Ballantyne (April 24, 1825 – February 8, 1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer.

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 was six years in the service of 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 the profession of literature, and began the series of adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated.