Ballantyne, R. M: Personal Reminiscences in Book Making. V1. 4 Oct 2010
 

R. M. Ballantyne (24 April 1825 – 8 February 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.

Life in the Bell Rock lighthouse
Nights with the fire bridgade
A war of mercy
Descent into the Cornish mines
The land of the vikings
The burglars and the parson
Jim Greeley, the North Sea skipper
A northern waif
How to make the best of life: from a young man's standpoint
Forgive and forget: a lifeboat story --
"Rescue the perishing"
A knotty question
Two remarkable dreams.