New Book Review! The Pioneers & Fast in the Ice

I have recently posted a book review by Joshua Horn on two of R.M. Ballantyne's shorter stories; The Pioneers and Fast in the Ice.

The first book, The Pioneers, is the tale of Reuben Guff and his son Lawrence as they travel on voyages of discovery in the northern wilderness of Canada in the 1780s.

The second story in this binding is Fast in the Ice. It tells of a voyage made by Captain Harvey and his nephew Tom Gregory in search for the North Pole. The story tells of how they were protected through all their dangers once they arrive in the Arctic region. An interesting aspect of this book is that it was written long before anyone had actually made it to the North Pole, and so Ballentyne has a lot of very interesting pre- 20th century conjecture.

To read the book review by Joshua Horn, you can click here. -JT