• The Ballantyne Novels are a series of novels published between 1980 and 1984 by Wilbur Smith. They chronicle the lives of the Ballantyne family, from the...
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    The Waverley Novels are a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). For nearly a century, they were among the most popular and widely read...
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    Die 1987 (1989) (The Burning Shore series) The Ballantyne Novels chronicle the lives of the Ballantyne family, from the 1860s through the 1980s, against...
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    early in the same year. The Coral Island is the most popular of the Ballantyne novels still read and remembered today, but because of one mistake he made...
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  • A Falcon Flies (category Novels by Wilbur Smith)
    Falcon Flies is a novel by Wilbur Smith. It was the first in a series of books known as The Ballantyne Novels. The Rhodesian Bush War of the 1970s inspired...
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  • New Zealand in 1947 The Ballantyne Novels, a series of four novels published between 1980 and 1984 by Wilbur Smith Ballantyne syndrome, a rare disorder...
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    The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean (1857) is a novel written by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. One of the first works of juvenile fiction...
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  • Tony Ballantyne may refer to: Tony Ballantyne (historian) (born 1972), New Zealand historian Tony Ballantyne (writer) (born 1972), British science-fiction...
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  • Men of Men (category Novels by Wilbur Smith)
    Men is a novel by Wilbur Smith, the second in the Ballantyne Novels series. It is set in the 1880s during the colonisation of Rhodesia and the First Matabele...
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  • thirty-second novel, it follows The Triumph of the Sun in which the author brought the Courtney and Ballantyne series together. Assegai tells the story of...
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  • The Courtney Novels are a series of seventeen novels published between 1964 and 2019 by Wilbur Smith. They chronicle the lives of the Courtney family...
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  • Smith wrote a series of novels concerning two families, the Courtneys and the Ballantynes. This is his first book where the families meet. "Right from...
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    The Island Queen: or Dethroned by Fire and Water: a tale of the Southern Hemisphere (1885) is a novel written by Scottish author R.M. Ballantyne. The...
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  • Smith's series about the Ballantyne family of Rhodesia. When it was released it was banned by the Zimbabwe government. With the help of his World Bank...
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  • Tony Ballantyne (born 1972) is a British science-fiction author known for his debut trilogy of novels, titled Recursion, Capacity and Divergence. He is...
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  • The Angels Weep is a 1982 novel, the third in Wilbur Smith's series about the Ballantyne family of Rhodesia. The first part of the book is set immediately...
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    The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa (1861) is a boys' adventure novel by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. A sequel to his hugely successful...
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  • audio, digital and print. Most of the works, which include full-length novels, novellas, short stories, graphic novels, and audio dramas, are parts of named...
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  • 88, Zambian-born South African novelist (When the Lion Feeds, The Courtney Novels, The Ballantyne Novels). Milind Teltumbde, Indian guerrilla, shot. Yūji...
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  • Ballantyne's Coral Island", Children's Literature, 25: 205–213, doi:10.1353/chl.0.0478, S2CID 144319352 Bloom, Harold. "Major themes in Lord of the Flies"...
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  • Caroline Ballantyne (née Weibert; July 26, 1937 – May 2, 2007) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her work primarily focused on the shifting...
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  • the family returned to New Zealand. Ballantyne died at his home in Ponsonby in inner-city Auckland in 1986. He published eight novels, of which the first...
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    historical romance novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels, first published on 13 January 1821. Set in 1575, it leads up to the elaborate reception...
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    1966 by a major thematic analysis covering most of the novels by Francis R. Hart (Scott's Novels: The Plotting of Historic Survival). Scott has proved particularly...
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  • Blue Fin (category Films based on Australian novels)
    Greg Rowe and Elspeth Ballantyne. It is based on a 1969 Australian novel written by Colin Thiele. Based on the children's novel by South Australian author...
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    Bell Rock Lighthouse (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    the rock at dreadful human cost R. M. Ballantyne's novel The Lighthouse (1865) is centred on the construction of the Bell Rock Lighthouse. Scotland portal...
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  • John Ballantyne (1774–1821) was a Scottish publisher notable for his work with Walter Scott, a pre-eminent author of the time. Ballantyne, younger brother...
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    Author's Adventures, Ballantyne states that his visits to the mines of the St Just area of Cornwall in 1868 were an inspiration for his novel. His reminiscences...
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    naval, nautical or sea novels, depends largely on the focus of the commentator. Conventionally sea fiction encompasses novels in the vein of Marryat, Conrad...
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    fire engulfed the Ballantynes department store in central Christchurch, New Zealand, resulting in the death of 41 people. It remains the deadliest fire...
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