Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne

Robert Michael Ballantyne
(1825–1894)

Robert Michael Ballantyne

Works

• The Battery and the Boiler: Adventures in the laying of submarine electric cables (1883)
• Battles with the Sea (1883)
• Big Otter (1887)
• Black Ivory: A tale of adventures among the slavers of East Africa (1873)
• Blown to Bits; or the lonely man of Rakata (1889)
• Blue Lights: Hot work in the Soudan (1888)
• The Buffalo Runners: A Tale of the Red River plains (1891)
• The Butterfly's Ball and Grasshopper's Feast (1857)
• Charlie to the Rescue (1890)
• Collected Works of Ensign Sopht (1881)
• The Coral Island (1857) (illustrated by the author) (transcription project)
• The Coxswain's Bride (1891)
• The Crew of the Water Wagtail (1889)
• Deep Down: A tale of the Cornish mines (1868)
• Discovery and Adventure in the Polar Seas (1860)
• The Dog Crusoe and His Master: A story of adventure in the Western prairies (1861)
• Dusty Diamonds, Cut and Polished: A tale of city Arab life and adventure (1884)
• The Eagle Cliff (1889)
• Ensign Sopht's Illustrated Volunteer Almanack (1861)
• Environs and Vicinity of Edinburgh (1859)
• Erling the Bold: A tale of the Norse sea kings (1869)
• Fighting the Flames: A tale of the London Fire Brigade (1867)
• The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands (1870)
• Freaks on the Fells (1865)
• The Fugitives; or, The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar (1887)
• The Garret and the Garden: or, Low life high up (1890)
• Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader: A tale of the Pacific (1864)
• The Giant of the North; or, Pokings around the Pole (1882)
• The Golden Dream: A tale of the diggings (Also subtitled, Adventures in the far west) (1861)
• The Gorilla Hunters: A tale of the wilds of Africa (1861) IA
• Handbook to the New Goldfields . . . of the Fraser and Thompson River Gold Mines (1858)
• The 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:A tale of modern war (1878)
• The Iron Horse (Ballantyne), or, Life on the line. A railway tale (1871)
• The Island Queen (1885)
• Jarwin and Cuffy (1878)
• The Kitten Pilgrims (1882)
• Lakes of Killarney (1859)
• The Life and Adventures of Simon Gupple (1855)
• The Lifeboat: A tale of our coast heroes (1864)
• Life in the Red Brigade: London fire Brigade (1873)
• The Life of a Ship from Launch to Wreck (1857)
• The Lighthouse: The story of a great fight between man and the sea (1865)
• The Lonely Island; or, The refuge of the mutineers (1880)
• The Madman and the Pirate (1883)
• The Man on the Ocean (1863)
• Martin Rattler: A boy's adventures in the forests of Brazil (1858) (transcription project)
• Mee-a-ow, or Good Advice to Cats and Kittens (1859)
• The Middy and the Moors: An Algerine story (1888)
• Mister Fox (Ballantyne) (1857)
• My Doggie and I (1881)
• My Mother (1857)
• The Norsemen in the West: or, America before Columbus (1872)
• The Northern Coasts of America (1853)
• The Ocean and its Wonders (1874)
• Personal Reminiscences in Book-Making (1893)
• Philosopher Jack (1880)
• Photographs of Edinburgh (by A. Burns) (1868)
• The Pioneers (1872)
• The Pirate City: An Algerine tale (1874) (transcription project)
• Post Haste: A tale of Her Majesty's mails (1880)
• The Prairie Chief (1886)
• Red Eric (1861)
• The Red Man's Revenge: A tale of the Red River flood (1880)
• Red Rooney (1886)
• Reuben's Luck (1896)
• The Rivers of Ice: A tale illustrative of alpine adventure and glacier action (1875)
• The Robber Kitten (1858)
• The Rover of the Andes: A tale of adventure on South America (1885)
• The Settler and the Savage: A tale of peace and war in South Africa (1877)
• Shifting Winds: A tough yarn (1866)
• The Ships; Great Eastern and Lesser Craft (1859)
• Silver Lake (1867)
• Six Months at the Cape (1879)
• Snowflakes and Sunbeams, or the Young Fur traders: a tale of the far north (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 Kittens (1856)
• Twice Bought (1885)
• Under the Waves: or, Diving in deep waters (1876)
• Ungava (1858)
• The Volunteer Levee (1860)
• The Walrus Hunters: A romance of the realms of ice (1893)
• The Wild Man of the West (1863) (transcription project)
• The World of Ice (1860)
• The Young Trawler (1884)

Ballantyne's Miscellany

Volumes . . .

• Fighting the Whales (1863)
• Away in the Wilderness (1863)
• Fast in the Ice: Adventures in the Polar regions (1863)
• Chasing the Sun (1864)
• Sunk at Sea (1869)
• Lost in the Forest: Wandering Will's Adventures in South America (1869)
• Over the rocky Mountains: Wandering Will in the land of the Redskin (1869)
• Saved by the Lifeboat (1869)
• The Cannibal Islands: Captain Cook's Adventures in the South Seas (1869)
• Hunting the Lions (1869)
• Digging for Gold (1869)
• Up in the Clouds: Balloon voyages (1869)
• Battle and the Breeze (1869
• The Pioneers (1875)
• The Story of the Rock (1875)
• Wrecked but not Ruined (1875)
• The Thorogood Family (1883)
• The Lively Poll: A tale of the North Sea (1886)

Contributions to EB1911 (1 signed article)

• "Life-boat and Life-saving Service," 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)
• "Ballantyne, Robert Michael," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.