Martin Rattler, R. M. Ballantyne
Martin Rattler, R. M. Ballantyne
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Martin Rattler

Author: R. M. Ballantyne

Narrator: Peter Joyce

Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/02/2012

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Robert Michael Ballantyne was one of the most popular adventure story writers during Victoria's reign. He strongly believed that boys should grow up taking risks, and his hero, Martin Rattler, certainly has a thrilling time in this tale. Aunt Dorothy Grumbit thinks him a very bad boy, but Martin possesses all the manly virtues that one expects from a Ballantyne hero, and the story has all the traditional elements of a rollicking yarn: jolly jack tars, pirates, shipwreck, travel up the Amazon, diamond mines and capture by savage tribes. Public Domain (P)2012 Assembled Stories

About R. M. Ballantyne

Robert Michael Ballantyne (1824–1895) was a Scottish-born author of children’s literature. Born in Edinburgh to a family of famous printers and publishers, Ballantyne grew up with a love for writing. After spending six years in Canada working for the Hudson’s Bay Company, he returned to Scotland and worked for the publisher Messrs Constable. In 1856 Ballantyne gave up business for the profession of literature and began writing the series of adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated. He published his first book, Hudson’s Bay, in 1858, and went on to publish over a hundred books for children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Igenlode on May 02, 2024

Like "Around the World in Eighty Days", this is basically a travelogue of everything the author had researched about his setting[s], but is distinctly lacking in plot. The beginning, while being a classic 19th-century 'childhood of Our Hero' who is naughty but nice, is promising, but once young Mart......more

Goodreads review by Gerry on December 27, 2023

R M Ballantyne was said to have made it his rule to write as far as possible from personal knowledge of the scenes he described in his books but I can find no evidence of his having visited Brazil, in whose forests and besides whose rivers 'Martin Rattler' is set. But that does not mean that Ballant......more

Goodreads review by Scott on February 14, 2015

More than any other - the book I read under my bedsheets, as a boy... Showing me as it did, the power of words to transport.........more

Goodreads review by John on June 27, 2012

nostalgia! First read when I was aged 7. Only Xmas present in 1941.......more

Goodreads review by Paul on April 16, 2016

Awesome adventure. Loved it.......more

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