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Deep down : a tale of the Cornish mines / by R.M. Ballantyne, author of "The lifeboat : a tale of our coast heroes;" "Gascoyne, the sandal-wood trader;" "The coral island," et cetera.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894, author.
- Series:
- Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.
- Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories.
- Mines and mineral resources--Juvenile literature.
- Mines and mineral resources.
- Physicians--Juvenile literature.
- Physicians.
- Smuggling--Juvenile literature.
- Smuggling.
- Shipwrecks--Juvenile literature.
- Shipwrecks.
- Uncles.
- Cornwall (England : County)--Juvenile literature.
- Cornwall (England : County).
- Uncles--Juvenile literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 3 unnumbered pages, pages 2-420, 2 unnumbered pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1869.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- "It is a matter of importance to an author that the object of his work should be understood. Let it be understood, then that this book has been written, not with the view of giving a complete description of the mines, the fishings, or the social condition of Cornwall, but, for the purpose of exhibiting, as graphically as may be, some of the most interesting and picturesque scenes, incidents, and facts, connected with mining life in the west of that county."--Preface, page [iii], by R.M. Ballantyne and dated at Edinburgh, November 1868.
- "Lippincott's Press, Philadelphia" -- verso of title page.
- "With illustrations."
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 937011608
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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