Six Months at the Cape

by R.M. Ballantyne

R. M. Ballantyne was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born into a famous family of publishers he left at age 16 to work for the Hudson's Bay Company. He returned home to Scotland and published his first book Hudson's Bay. Ballantyne withdrew from business to become a full time writer and over the remaining years of his life he published upwards of a hundred books. With his work writing Ballantyne also was an accomplished artist exhibiting some of his water colours paintings at the Royal Scottish Academy.

124 pages, Paperback

Published October 22, 2012

About the author

R. M. Ballantyne was a Scottish writer of juvenile fiction.

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 where he served for six years with 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 literature, and began the series of adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated.

Reviews

[William · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining historical listening 🎶🔰

Another will written British historical short story adventure thriller by R. M. Ballantyne about the Cape of South Africa where this young man 🚹 spends six months. He hunts, explores, and helps friends settle. The novella is written in a first person and is very good 👍 reading or listening. I would recommend to readers of historical adventure novels. Enjoy the adventure of reading 👓 or listening 🎶 to Alexa as I do. Enjoy the adventure of books. 🏡🔰👒⏰ 2022