Personal Reminiscences in Book Making

By Ballantyne, Robert Michael

Book Id: WPLBN0000621499
Format Type: PDF eBook:
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Personal Reminiscences in Book Making
Author:	Ballantyne, Robert Michael
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: Chapter One. Incidents in Book Making?Introductory Note. Book making is mixed up, more or less, with difficulties. It is sometimes disappointing; often amusing; occasionally lucrative; frequently expensive, and always interesting?at least to the maker.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Personal Reminiscences in Book Making, 1 -- R.M. Ballantyne, 1 -- Chapter One. Incidents in Book Making?Introductory, 1 -- Chapter Two. Life in the Bell Rock Lighthouse, 7 -- Chapter Three. Nights with the Fire Brigade, 13 -- ?Case 10, 620, 20 -- Chapter Four. A War of Mercy, 21 -- Chapter Five. Descent into the Cornish Mines, 24 -- Chapter Six. The Land of the Vikings, 30 -- Chapter Seven. The Burglars and the Parson, 36 -- Chapter Eight. Jim Greely, the North Sea Skipper, 43 -- Chapter Nine. A Northern Waif, 52 -- Chapter Ten. How to make the Best of Life: from a Young Man's Standpoint, 54 -- Chapter Eleven. Forgive and Forget: A Lifeboat Story, 58 -- Chapter Twelve. ?Rescue the Perishing.?, 63 -- Chapter Thirteen. A Knotty Question, 66 -- Chapter Fourteen. Two Remarkable Dreams, 71 -- The End, 77