Tag: Fiction

  • The Gorilla Hunters (Ballantyne 1861)

    The Gorilla Hunters (Ballantyne 1861)

    I just finished reading The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa (1861) by R. M. Ballantyne. It was a sequel to Ballantyne’s The Coral Island (1858), which I had previously read. I want to write about it while the book is fresh in my mind, but this case is more difficult than…