Hudson Bay

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Hudson Bay is by R. M. Ballantyne. The preface says the author rests his hopes of its favourable reception chiefly upon the fact that its subject is comparatively new. The preface says the subject was touched upon by other writers in narratives of Arctic discovery and in works of general information, but the very nature of those publications prohibited a lengthened or minute description of that everyday life whose delineation is the chief aim of the following pages. The preface to the fourth edition says that since the book was written, very considerable changes have taken place in the affairs and management of the Hudson Bay Company, and that the original charter of the Company is now extinct.

The narrator's ship carries on to the island of Lewis, where they hove-to for a pilot, who steered the ship in safety through the narrow entrance to the bay of Stornoway. The summary of Chapter Two lists, among others, Stornoway, The ball, At sea, Among the ice, Sighting land, and York Factory and Bachelors' Hall.

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R. M. Ballantyne

R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish author of adventure fiction for the young. His years as a clerk for the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada gave him a taste for wild places, and he went on to write more than a hundred spirited tales of travel and survival.

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Author: R. M. Ballantyne
Pages: 207
Language: English
Genre: Travel Memoir
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