Hudson Bay
by R. M. Ballantyne
At just sixteen years old, fearless young Scotsman Robert M. Ballantine joined Hudson's Bay Company. He was immediately sent to Northeast Canada, spending five years crossing the region's unfavorable terrain by tobogganing and canoeing. His diary and letters home were so excited that he was persuaded to publish a story about his experience upon his return. Combining anthropological observations with depictions of landscapes, plants and animals, the story was acclaimed by Dundee Courier for "buoyancy and animation" to "open a mine of knowledge for the curious" and "depict the novel's daily life and existence in the singular."
