NOOK EDITION - Erling the Bold (Platinum Classics Series)

R. M. Ballantyne (April 24, 1825 – February 8, 1894) was a
Scottish juvenile fiction writer. 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 was six years in
the service of 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 the profession of literature, and began the series
of adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly
associated.