Male : Writer of boys stories and water colour artist

Nationality : Scottish Place of Birth : Edinburgh

Date of Birth : 1825 Date of Death : 1894 Age : 68

Pseudonyms : Comus

Other Work : Clerk in Hudson's Bay Co 1841-47

Published by Nelson unless stated
1856-1860
Snowflakes and Sunbeams or The Young Fur Traders (1856) - Author
Three Little Kittens (1856 Nelson) - by Comus
My Mother (1857 Nelson) - Author By Comus
The Life of a Ship from the Launch to Wreck (1857) - F Borders
The Butterfly's Ball (1857) by Comus - Author
Mister Fox (1857 Nelson) - by Comus
Ungava : A Tale of Esquimaux Land (1858) - Author
The Coral Island : A Tale of the Pacific Ocean (1858) - Author
The Robber Kitten (1858) - Comus (c1928 Blackie) - F A Williams
Martin Rattler, or a Boy's Adventures in the Forests of Brazil (1858)
Hudson's Bay, or Everyday Life in the Wilds of North America
(1859 Phillips, Sampson & Co, Boston US)
Mee-A-Ow ! or Good Advice to Cats and Kittens (1859)
The Lakes of Killarney (1859 Nelson)
The World of Ice, or Adventures in the Polar Regions (1860)

1861-1865
The Dog Crusoe : A Tale of the Western Prairies (1861)
The Gorilla Hunters : A Tale of the Wild of Africa (1861)
The Red Eric, or The Whaler's Last Cruise - A Tale (1861 Routledge) - William Coleman
the Giant of the North or Pokings around the Pole (1862 London)
Man on the Ocean : A Book for Boys (1863)
The Wild Man of the West : A Tale of the Rocky Mountains (1863 Routledge) - Johann Zwecker
Published by Nisbet unless stated
Ballantyne's Miscellany (1863-1886 : 15 titles in all)
[Small books of instruction to the poor & uneducated]
Gascoyne the Sandal-Wood Trader : A Tale of the Pacific (1864) (1866 Roberts, Boston)
The Lifeboat, a Tale of Our Coast Heroes (1864)
Freaks on the Fells, or Three Months' Rustication (1865 Routledge)
The Lighthouse : Being the Story of a Great Fight Between Man and the Sea (1865)
[Based on the Inchcape Rock lighthouse in the Tay estuary]

1866-1870
Shifting Winds : A Tough Yarn (1866)
Silver Lake, or Lost in the Snow (1867 Jackson)
Fighting the Flames : A Tale of the London Fire Brigade (1868)
Photographs of Edinburgh (1868 Glasgow)
Away in the Wilderness, or Life Among the Red Indians & Fur Traders of N America
(1869 Porter & Coates US)
Deep Down : A Tale of the Cornish Mines (1869)
Erling the Bold : A Tale of the Norse Sea-Kings (1869 Nisbet) - Author
The Lakes of Killarney (1869 Nelson)
The Floating Lights of the Goodwin Sands (1870 Nisbet) - Author

1871-1875
The Iron Horse, or Life on the Line : A Tale of the Grant National trunk Railway (1871)
The Norseman in the West, or America Before Columbus (1872)
The Pioneers : A Tale of the Western Wilderness (1872)
Black Ivory : A Tale of Adventure among the Slavers of East Africa (1873 Nisbet)
Life in the Red Brigade : A story for Boys (1873 Routledge)
The Ocean and Its Wonders (1874 Nelson)
The Pirate City : An Algerine Tale (1875)
Rivers of Ice : A Tale Illustrative of Alpine Adventure & Glacier Action (1875)

1876-1880
Under the Waves, or Diving in Deep Waters - A Tale (1876)
The Settler and the Savage : A Tale of Peace and War in South Africa (1877)
In the Track of the Troops : A Tale of Modern War (1878)
Jarwin and Cuffy : A Tale (1878 Warne)
Six Months at the Cape, or Letters to Periwinkle from South Africa (1879)
Post Haste : A Tale of Her Majesty's Mails (1880)
Philosopher Jack : A Tale of the Southern Seas (1880)
The Lonely Island or The Refuge of the Mutineers (1880)
The Redman's Revenge : A Tale of the Red River Flood (1880)

1881-1885
The Collected Works of Ensign Sopht, Late of the Volunteers (1881)
My Doggy and I (1881)
The Giant of the North or Pokings around the Pole (1882)
The Kitten Pilgrims, or Great Battles and Grand Victories (1882) - Author
The Battery and the Boiler, or Adventures in the Laying of Submarine Cable (1883) - Author
The Madman and the Pirate (1883)
Battles with the Sea, or Heroes of the Lifeboat and Rocket (1883)
The Young Trawlers : A story of Life & Death & Rescue on the North Sea (1884)
Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished : A Tale of City-Arab Life & Adventure (1884)
Twice Bought : A Tale of the Oregon Gold Fields (1885)
The Rover of the Andes : A Tale of Adventure in South America (1885)
The Island Queen, or Dethroned by Fire & Water : A Tale of the Southern Hemisphere (1885)

1886-1890
Red Rooney or The Last of the Crew (1886)
The Big Otter : A Tale of the Great Nor'West (1887 Routledge)
The Fugitives, or the Tyrant Queen of Masagascar (1887 Nisbet)
Blue Lights, or Hot Work in the Sudan : A Tale of Soldier Life (1888)
The Middy and the Moors : An Algerine Story (1888)
The Crew of the Water Wagtail : A Story of Newfoundland (1889)
Blown to Bits, or The Lonely Man of Rakata - A Tale of the Malay Archipelago (1889) - Author
The Garrett and the Garden, or Low Life High Up & Jeff Benson, or The Young Coastguardsmen
(1890)
Charlie to the Rescue : A tale of the Sea and the Rockies (1890)

1891-1895
The Coxswain's Bride, or The Rising Tide and Other Tales (1891) - Author
The Buffalo Runners : A Tale of the Red River Plains (1891)
The Robber Kitten (1891 Nelson) - Author
The Hot Swamp : A Romance of Old Albion (1892)
Hunted and Harried : A Tale of the Scottish Covenanters (1892)
The Walrus Hunters : A Romance of the Realms of Ice (1893)
Personal Reminiscences in Book-Making (1893) - autobiography

20thC
The Robber Kitten (1904 Henry Altemus, Phila) - John R Neil
The Dog Crusoe (1912 Nelson) - W H C Groome
Fighting the Whales (1915 Blackie)
Ballantyne Omnibus for Boys (1932 Collins)
The Jolly Kitten Book (1925 Blackie) - F A Williams
The Dog Crusoe (1966 Dent / Dutton) - Victor Ambrus

READING
Eric Quayle : Ballantyne the Brave - A Victorian Writer & His Family (1967 Hart-Davis)
Eric Quayle : R M Ballantyne - A Bibliography of First Editions (1968 Dawsons Pall Mall, London)