Ungava
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in the geography and history of northern Canada
- Readers who enjoy traditional wilderness survival adventure stories
- Scholars or students studying the narrative modes of nineteenth-century adventure literature
- Readers hoping to broaden their range of English public-domain reading
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer modern urban or psychological suspense themes
- Readers impatient with traditional linear narrative
- Readers expecting a deep ethnographic record of Indigenous culture
Reading tips
- Before reading, first get a general sense of the Ungava region's geographical location.
- Proceed chapter by chapter, slowing down at environmental descriptions to take in the atmosphere.
- Note the survival skills and character decisions that recur throughout the book.
- After reading, compare narrative similarities and differences with the author's other polar-themed works.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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FAQ
What place does Ungava refer to?
Is this book similar in style to The Walrus Hunters?
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About the author
Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825–1894) was a Scottish writer of children's literature, born in Edinburgh. At sixteen he went to Canada and worked for the Hudson's Bay Company for six years, an experience that later supplied material for his adventure stories; after returning to Scotland in 1847 he devoted himself to writing and produced more than a hundred adventure novels, of which ninety-seven are held in this collection. His representative works include The Coral Island, The Dog Crusoe and his Master, Black Ivory, The Lighthouse and Martin Rattler, mostly drawing on seafaring, desert-island and frontier adventure, with tight plots and solid detail that combine instruction with appeal for young readers. He was also skilled in watercolour painting. Public information on his early education and private life is limited.
