Martin Rattler: Adventures of a Boy in the Forests of Brazil
by Ballantyne, R. M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible - Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1934554049
- ISBN 13
- 9781934554043
- Seller
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About This Item
San Antonio, TX: The Vision Forum, Inc, 2007. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - Near Fine. 5.25"x8.25". 259 pgs. No DJ. First Printing. Each color of cloth boards in this series represents which geographic region the story is located in. This title the cloth boards are wheat which represents S. America. Title, with gilt line above and beneath, and a Scotch Thistle emblem in gilt on front. All this is mirrored on spine. Reprint from 1858 classics. Preface by author. B&W frontispiece: "The Cavalcade". Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library & unmarked. 3 puncture holes to front board. Martin Rattler is the story of a mischievous young boy with a good heart. By mistake, he winds up on the ship Firefly with his friend Barney O'Flannagan, headed to the South Seas. Escaping pirates and surviving a shipwreck, the two explore South America in one frolicking adventure after another.
A thoroughly delightful read, you will follow the young adventurers as they canoe down the Amazon, narrowly escape an alligator, eat an anaconda and turtle's eggs, are captured by Indians, and then are separated. Martin escapes by jumping over a cliff and tries to make his way home. He meets some men who take him to a diamond mine where he gets a job working under a man named Baron Fagoni. But what happened to his friend Barney O'Flannagan? Source: Goodreads.
A thoroughly delightful read, you will follow the young adventurers as they canoe down the Amazon, narrowly escape an alligator, eat an anaconda and turtle's eggs, are captured by Indians, and then are separated. Martin escapes by jumping over a cliff and tries to make his way home. He meets some men who take him to a diamond mine where he gets a job working under a man named Baron Fagoni. But what happened to his friend Barney O'Flannagan? Source: Goodreads.
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- Bookseller
- Blacks Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13565
- Title
- Martin Rattler: Adventures of a Boy in the Forests of Brazil
- Author
- Ballantyne, R. M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1934554049
- ISBN 13
- 9781934554043
- Publisher
- The Vision Forum, Inc
- Place of Publication
- San Antonio, TX
- Date Published
- 2007
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