The Coral Island by Robert Michael Ballantyne Randi Soneneshine A classic story from the

A classic story from the creator of The Little Christmas Tree and The Pancake who Ran Away

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who discovered an ancient Native American settlement when he was just a teenager

His documentation of the climb and the aftermath of the experience was made into the award-winning documentary COLD and appeared on the cover of the 125th-anniversary issue of National Geographic

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The Coral Island by Robert Michael Ballantyne Randi Soneneshine A classic story from theR. M. Ballantyne (April 24, 1825 February 8, 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