EBOOK Martin Rattler - Robert Michael Ballantyne

EBOOK Martin Rattler
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Autor: Robert Michael Ballantyne

 Wydawnictwo: pubOne
ISBN: 9782819921677
EAN: 653AC969EB
Format: 0,0 x 0,0 x 0,0
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Stron: 254
Data wydania: 2010
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"e;MARTIN RATTLER"e; was one of, Robert Michael Ballantyne's early books.   Born at Edinburgh in 1825,[1] he was sent to Rupert's Land as a   trading-clerk in the Hudson Bay Fur Company's service when he left   school, a boy of sixteen. There, to relieve his home-sickness, he first   practised his pen in long letters home to his mother. Soon after his   return to Scotland in 1848 he published a first book on Hudson's Bay.   Then he passed some years in a Scottish publisher's office; and in 1855 a   chance suggestion from another publisher led to his writing his first   book for boys-"e;Snowflakes and Sunbeams, or The Young Fur Traders."e; That   story showed he had found his vocation, and he poured forth its   successors to the tune in all of some fourscore volumes. "e;Martin Rattler"e;   appeared in 1858. In his "e;Personal Reminiscences"e; Ballantyne wrote: "e;How   many thousands of lads have an intense liking for the idea of a sailor's   life!"e; and he pointed out there the other side of the romantic picture:   the long watches "e;in dirty unromantic weather,"e; and the hard work of   holystoning the decks, scraping down the masts and cleaning out the   coal-hole. But though his books show something of this reverse side too,   there is no doubt they have helped to set many boys dreaming o

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