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Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in he gave up business for the profession of literature, and began the series of excellent stories of adventure for the young with which his name is popularly associated. ''The Young Fur-Traders'' (), ''The Dog Crusoe'' ( 1860 ), ''The Lighthouse'' ( 1865 ), ''Deep Down'' ( 1868 ), ''The Pirate City'' ( 1874 ), ''Erling the Bold'' ( 1869 ), ''The Settler and the Savage'' ( 1877 ), and other books, to the number of upwards of a hundred, followed in regular succession, his rule being in every case to write as far as possible from personal knowledge of the scenes he described. His stories had the merit of being thoroughly healthy in tone and possessed considerable graphic force. Ballantyne was also no mean artist, and exhibited some of his Water-colours at the Royal Scottish Academy . He lived in later years at Harrow , and died at Rome , Italy , where he had gone to attempt to shake off the results of overwork. He wrote a volume of ''Personal Reminiscences of Book-making'' ( 1893 ). REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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