



Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England




The Rover of the Andes, a Tale of Adventure in South America, by R.M.
Ballantyne.

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This book is well-written and carries the reader right up to the last
chapter, always panting to know what ever will happen next. It describes
a journey across central South America, at about the latitude of Buenos
Aires in Argentina. Lots of different sorts of nasty happenings, and
nasty people are encountered, and the problems are overcome one by one.
It seems quite realistic, but at anyrate it is a good product of the
writer's imagination and research. I enjoyed transcribing it very much.

Robert Michael Ballantyne was born in 1825 and died in 1894.  He was
educated at the Edinburgh Academy, and in 1841 he became a clerk with
the Hudson Bay Company, working at the Red River Settlement in Northen
Canada until 1847, arriving back in Edinburgh in 1848.  The letters he
had written h