Manhood

"Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and off of trees, etc., in order to strengthen their nervous system.... They ought to practice leaping off heights into deep water. They ought never to hesitate to cross a stream over a narrow unsafe plank for fear of a ducking. They ought never to decline to climb up a tree, to pull fruit merely because there is a possibility of their falling off and breaking their necks. I firmly believe that boys were intended to encounter all kinds of risks, in order to prepare them to meet and grapple with risks and dangers incident to man's career with cool, cautious self-possession... -R.M. Ballantyne, The Gorilla Hunters

To the Hesitating Purchaser

:If sailor tales to sailor tunes,

:Storm and adventure, heat and cold,

:If schooners, islands, and maroons,

:And buccaneers, and buried gold,

:And all the old romance, retold

:Exactly in the ancient way,

:Can please, as me they pleased of old,

:The wiser youngsters of today:

:So be it, and fall on! If not,

:If studious youth no longer crave,

:His ancient appetites forgot,

:Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,

:Or Cooper of the wood and wave:

:So be it, also! And may I

:And all my pirates share the grave

:Where these and their creations lie!

Slavery

• The Hudson's Bay Company (1848)
• The Young Fur Traders (1856)
• Mister Fox. A Children's Nursery Rhyme (1856)
• The Coral Island (1857)
• Ungava (1858)
• Martin Rattler (1858)
• Handbook to the new Goldfields (1858)
• The Dog Crusoe and his Master (1860)
• The World of Ice (1860)
• The Gorilla Hunters(1861)
• The Golden Dream (1861)
• The Red Eric (1861)
• Away in the Wilderness (1863)
• Fighting the Whales (1863)
• The Wild Man of the West (1863)
• Man on the Ocean (1863)
• Fast in the Ice (1863)
• Gascoyne (1864)
• The Lifeboat (1864)
• Chasing the Sun (1864)
• Freaks on the Fells (1864)
• The Lighthouse (1865)
• Fighting The Flames (1867)
• Silver Lake (1867)
• Deep Down (1868)
• Shifting Winds (1868)
• Hunting the Lions (1869)
• Over the Rocky Mountains (1869)
• Saved by the Lifeboat (1869)
• Erling the Bold (1869)
• The Battle and the Breeze (1869)
• Up in the Clouds (1869)
• The Cannibal Islands (1869)
• Lost in the Forest (1869)
• Digging for Gold (1869)
• Sunk at Sea (1869)
• The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands (1870)
• The Iron Horse (1879)
• The Norsemen in the West (1872)
• The Pioneers (1872)
• Black Ivory (1873)
• Life in the Red Brigade (1873)
• Fort Desolation (1873)
• The Ocean and its Wonders (1874)
• The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (1874)
• The Story of the Rock (1875)
• Rivers of Ice (1875)
• Under the Waves (1876)
• The Settler and the Savage (1877)
• In the Track of the Troops (1878)
• Jarwin and Cuffy (1878)
• Philosopher Jack (1879)
• Six Months at the Cape (1879)
• Post Haste (1880)
• The Lonely Island (1880)
• The Red Man's Revenge (1880)
• My Doggie and I (1881)
• The Life of a Ship (1882)
• The Kitten Pilgrims (1882)
• The Giant of the North (1882)
• The Madman and the Pirate (1883)
• Battles with the Sea (1883)
• The Battery and the Boiler (1883)
• The Thorogood Family (1883)
• The Young Trawler (1884)
• Dusty Diamonds, Cut and Polished (1884)
• Twice Bought (1885)
• The Island Queen (1885)
• The Rover of the Andes (1885)
• The Prairie Chief (1886)
• The Lively Poll (1886)
• Red Rooney (1886)
• The Big Otter (1887)
• The Fugitives (1887)
• Blue Lights (1888)
• The Middy and the Moors (1888)
• The Eagle Cliff (1889)
• The Crew of the Water Wagtail (1889)
• Blown to Bits (1889)
• The Garret and the Garden (1890)
• Jeff Benson (1890)
• Charlie to the Rescue (1890)
• The Coxswain's Bride (1891)
• The Buffalo Runners (1891)
• The Hot Swamp (1892)
• Hunted and Harried (1892)
• The Walrus Hunters (1893)
• An Author's Adventures (1893)
• Wrecked but not Ruined (1895)