The rover of the Andes : a tale of adventure in South America / by R.M. Ballantyne, ca. 1884.

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The rover of the Andes : a tale of adventure in South America / by R.M. Ballantyne, ca. 1884.

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Ballantyne's signed manuscript has numerous corrections by the author throughout. The title was published simultaneously by J. Nisbet in London and Thomas Nelson in New York in 1885.

385 leaves.

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Ballantyne, R.M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894

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Robert Michael Ballantyne was born into a well-to-do Edinburgh literary family. His father was a newspaper publisher and his uncle was the publisher of Sir Walter Scott. The family lost their money in 1841, and Robert became apprenticed as a clerk with the Hudson Bay Fur Company in Canada. This gave him a taste for adventure and ideas for his later career as a writer, painter, and lecturer back in Britain. Ballantyne wrote over forty books, mostly adventure books for children. From t...