This is a well-written historical adventure thriller short story by R. M. Ballantyne about Canadian fur traders and Indians interacting. A man whose boat is wrecked and believed to be bankrupt but friends and family come to the rescue but the thrill is How will they save him? Are they even going to be successful? How will this man get out of the problem? To know the end you should read Wrecked but not Ruined. As the title portrays by itself that this man might be wrecked but he is not ruined! So, how this happened is that you should take a deep dive into the novel. This is a collection of various amazing ideas of R. M. Ballantyne that are consolidated into a marvelous single draft.
R. M. Ballantyne was a Scottish writer of young adult literature who produced more than a hundred books between 24 April 1825 and 8 February 1894. He was also a skilled artist; some of his watercolors were on display at the Royal Scottish Academy. The ninth of ten children and youngest son of Alexander Thomson Ballantyne (1776-1847) and his wife Anne, Ballantyne was born in Edinburgh on April 24, 1825. Robert's uncle James Ballantyne (1772-1833) was Sir Walter Scott's printer, and Alexander worked as a newspaper editor and printer in the family business "Ballantyne & Co" based at Paul's Works on the Canongate. The family is documented to have resided at 20 Fettes Row in Edinburgh's northern New Town in 1832-1833. The Ballantyne printing company collapsed the next year with debts of £130,000 as a result of a UK-wide banking crisis, which caused a decrease in the family's finances. Ballantyne moved to Canada at the age of 16 and worked for the Hudson's Bay Company for five years. He traveled by canoe and sleigh to the regions that are now the provinces of Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec to trade with the local First Nations and Native Americans for furs; these experiences served as the inspiration for his book The Young Fur Traders.
