Hudson Bay

R. M. Ballantyne was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born into a famous family of publishers he left at age 16 to work for the Hudson's Bay Company. He returned home to Scotland and published his first book Hudson's Bay. Ballantyne withdrew from business to become a full time writer and over the remaining years of his life he published upwards of a hundred books. With his work writing Ballantyne also was an accomplished artist exhibiting some of his water colours paintings at the Royal Scottish Academy.