Deep Down; a Tale of the Cornish Mines

Deep Down; a Tale of the Cornish Mines PDF

Author: Robert Michael Ballantyne

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9781290605274

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Deep Down a Tale of the Cornish Mines

Deep Down a Tale of the Cornish Mines PDF

Author: R. M. Ballantyne

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-03-09

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781508793755

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A tale of love, life, laughter and tragedy, with some smuggling thrown in, set amongst the people living near the tin and copper mines of St. Just, Cornwall, in the mid 19th Century. During the mid 1860's the author, R. M. Ballantyne, spent over three months living amongst the mine-workers of St. Just. He incorporates into his novel many historical facts, producing an exciting and very accurate portrayal of Victorian tin a. I really enjoyed the main character, Oliver Trembath. Trembath is a young doctor who travels to the Cornwall district in England where there are many tin mines and such. You can learn much about the mines from this book. There are rum smugglers in this book, speculations, and many other adventures. The romance, however, was a little cheesy, unlike other Ballantyne books (e.g. Post Haste.) But, overall it was good, just not Ballantyne's best work

Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mine

Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mine PDF

Author: R. M. Ballantyne

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-09-24

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9781539066163

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R. M. Ballantyne children's book, here is a piece of the content as it began; BEGINS THE STORY WITH A PECULIAR MEETING. Necessity is the mother of Invention. This is undoubtedly true, but it is equally true that Invention is not the only member of Necessity's large family. Change of scene and circumstance are also among her children. It was necessity that gave birth to the resolve to travel to the end of the earth-of English earth at all events-in search of fortune, which swelled the bosom of yonder tall well-favoured youth, who, seated uncomfortably on the top of that clumsy public conveyance, drives up Market-Jew Street in the ancient town of Penzance. Yes, necessity-stern necessity, as she is sometimes called-drove that youth into Cornwall, and thus was the originating cause of that wonderful series of events which ultimately l A

Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines (Dodo Press)

Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines (Dodo Press) PDF

Author: Robert M. Ballantyne

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781406558159

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R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. In 1848 he published his first book, 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 the profession of literature, and began the series of adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated. The Young Fur-Traders (1856), The Coral Island (1857), The World of Ice (1859), Ungava: A Tale of Eskimo Land (1857), The Dog Crusoe (1860), The Lighthouse (1865), Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines (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.

Deep Down

Deep Down PDF

Author: Robert Michael Ballantyne

Publisher: Pinnacle Press

Published: 2017-05-24

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781374849372

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Deep Down

Deep Down PDF

Author: R M 1825-1894 Ballantyne

Publisher: Franklin Classics

Published: 2018-10-14

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780343045043

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