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    Martin Rattler
    Martin Rattler
    Martin Rattler
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    Martin Rattler

    By R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1968
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    • 4/5
      In my opinion, you're never too old to enjoy this book!
    • 5/5
      Read this to myself a few years ago, and just enjoyed reading this with my 10 and 13 year olds for our literature. Great book! You can see, smell and hear Brazil as you venture through the country of Brazil with Martin and Barney. Great values, Christian focus and exceptional writing! Ballantyne writes in such a way that the children continually ask, "is this a true story?"I hope to someday have read all of Ballantyne's books - he was a writer truly gifted in his craft.
    • 3/5
      A boy's adventures in the forests of Brazil. As evidenced by it's being the second most popular Ballantyne on LibraryThing, it was more famous than some of his other books which I liked better. But - I like them all so I guess my opinion isn't worth a hell of a lot in that respect. Martin meets a jaguar, an anaconda and some alligators. When this was written, in the late 1800s, those events alone would have been of immense interest to youths reading of them from their beds or firesides in good old England.

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