The Young Fur Traders(III) 年轻的毛皮商人（英文版） (English Edition)

The Young Fur Traders is a novel by Robert Michael Ballantyne, a Scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote more than 100 books, an accomplished artist who exhibited some of his water-colours at the Royal Scottish Academy. The work is published in 1856. The book follows the adventures of a young man called Charles Kennedy. Loosely autobiographical account of Ballantyne's own time with the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada. Ballantyne went to Canada aged 16, and spent five years working for the Hudson's Bay Company. He traded with the local Native Americans for furs, which required him to travel by canoe and sleigh to the areas occupied by the modern-day provinces of Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec, experiences that formed the basis of his novel Snowflakes and Sunbeams (1856).[3] His longing for family and home during that period impressed him to start writing letters to his mother. Ballantyne recalled in his autobiographical Personal Reminiscences in Book Making (1893) that "To this long-letter writing I attribute whatever small amount of facility in composition I may have acquired.

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