One of my Top Favorite Ballantynes: The Norsemen in the West

One of my top favorite Ballantynes is The Norsemen in the West. I always enjoy seeing Ballantyne take a true story and turn it into an amazing masterpiece for the boys of his time to be reading. In this case Ballantyne decided that he was going to write the story of Leif Erickson, an early explorer of America, and write it in a way that stuck to the original story, but was also able to make it an extremely exciting adventure much the same way he did for The Lonely Island (the story of the Mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty).

The Norsemen in The West.

The image and title page of The Norsemen in The West. I believe that Ballantyne drew the illustrations for this edition.