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Title: Chasing the Sun

Author: R.M. Ballantyne

Release Date: October 31, 2007 [EBook #23262]

Language: English

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Chasing the Sun, by R.M. Ballantyne.

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Our Hero, Fred Temple, has risen to be a senior manager in the great
Liverpool business founded by his father. But he was getting overworked
and deeply tired, so one day he announced that he was taking leave for a
while and was going to visit Norway in a small yacht.

Ballantyne had several holidays in Norway, so to write about it and
describe it was a pleasure to him. This book is therefore an account of
Norway seen through the eyes of an enthusiast for that country.

Fred takes some friends with him. Together, they have great adventures
and great fun. They even venture so far north as Lapland, and the Land
of the Midnight Sun.

A wonderful piece of vintage Victoriana at its best.

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CHASING THE SUN, BY R.M. BALLANTYNE.

CHAPTER ONE.

PREPARATIONS FOR THE CHASE.

Fred Temple was a tall, handsome young fellow of about five-and-twenty.

He had a romantic spirit, a quiet gentlemanly manner, a pleasant smile,
and a passionate desire for violent exercise. To look at him you would
have supposed that he was rather a lazy man, for all his motions were
slow and deliberate. He was never in a hurry, and looked as if it would
take a great deal to excite him. But those who knew Fred Temple well
used to say that there was a great deal more in him than appeared at
first sight. Sometimes a sudden flush of the brow, or a gleam of his
eyes, told of hidden fires within.

Fred, when a small boy, was extremely fond of daring and dangerous
expeditions. He had risked his life hundreds of times on tree-tops and
precipices for birds' nests, and had fought more hand-to-hand battles
than any of the old Greek or Roman heroes. After he became a man, he
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