{"product_id":"2940013313361","title":"Personal Reminiscences of Book Making","description":"He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, and in 1841 he became a clerk\u003cbr\u003ewith the Hudson Bay Company, working at the Red River Settlement in\u003cbr\u003eNorthen Canada until 1847, arriving back in Edinburgh in 1848.  The\u003cbr\u003eletters he had written home were very amusing in their description of\u003cbr\u003ebackwoods life, and his family publishing connections suggested that he\u003cbr\u003eshould construct a book based on these letters.  Three of his most\u003cbr\u003eenduring books were written over the next decade, \"The Young Fur\u003cbr\u003eTraders\", \"Ungava\", \"The Hudson Bay Company\", and were based on his\u003cbr\u003eexperiences with the H.B.C.  In this period he also wrote \"The Coral\u003cbr\u003eisland\" and \"Martin Rattler\", both of these taking place in places never\u003cbr\u003evisited by Ballantyne.  Having been chided for small mistakes he made in\u003cbr\u003ethese books, he resolved always to visit the places he wrote about.\u003cbr\u003eWith these books he became known as a great master of literature\u003cbr\u003eintended for teenagers.  He researched the Cornish Mines, the London\u003cbr\u003eFire Brigade, the Postal Service, the Railways, the laying down of\u003cbr\u003esubmarine telegraph cables, the construction of light-houses, the\u003cbr\u003elight-ship service, the life-boat service, South Africa, Norway, the\u003cbr\u003eNorth Sea fishing fleet, ballooning, deep-sea diving, Algiers, and many\u003cbr\u003emore, experiencing the lives of the men and women in these settings by\u003cbr\u003eliving with them for weeks and months at a time, and he lived as they\u003cbr\u003elived.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082471522544,"sku":"2940013313361","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013313361_p0.jpg?v=1763590894","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013313361","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}