<영어로 읽는 고전 _ R.M. 발렌타인의 바다의 불가사의 >
1874년에 출간 된 R.M.발렌타인의 소설로 1800년대 중반 바다에 대한 세부 사항과 사실을 담은 우아하고 서정적인 책이다.
R.M. Ballantyne(1825-1894)은 스코틀랜드의 예술가이자 대부분 어린이 소설의 다작 작가였다. Edinburgh에서 태어난 Ballantyne은 열 자녀 중 아홉 번째였다. 16세에 Ballantyne은 캐나다로 이주하여 Hudson's Bay Company에서 일하면서 모피 무역을 위해 전국을 여행했다. 1847년 아버지가 세상을 떠나 스코틀랜드로 돌아온 그는 평생 동안 100권이 넘는 어린이 모험 책을 쓰면서 본격적으로 문학 활동을 시작했다. 'The Coral Island' 및 'The Young Fur Traders'와 같은 이야기는 큰 인기를 얻었으며 많은 이야기가 캐나다 전역을 여행한 자신의 경험을 바탕으로 했다.
그의 대표작으로는 "The Coral Island"(《산호섬》)과 "The Gorilla Hunters"(《고릴라 사냥꾼》) 등이 있으며, 이들 작품은 당시 영국에서 매우 인기가 있었습니다. 또한, 그는 자연과학에 관심을 가지고 있어 책에도 관련 내용을 많이 썼다.

<Classic reading in English _ The Ocean and Its Wonders by R. M. Ballantyne>
A novel by R.M. Valentine published in 1874, it is an elegant and lyrical book with details and facts about the sea in the mid-1800s.
R.M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish artist and prolific author of mostly children's fiction. Born in Edinburgh, Ballantyne was the ninth of ten children. At the age of 16, Ballantyne moved to Canada, where he worked for the Hudson's Bay Company, where he traveled the country in the fur trade. Returning to Scotland after his father's death in 1847, he began his literary career in earnest, writing over 100 children's adventure books during his lifetime. His stories such as 'The Coral Island' and 'The Young Fur Traders' were hugely popular and many of his stories were based on his own experiences traveling across Canada.
His representative works include "The Coral Island" and "The Gorilla Hunters", which were very popular in England at the time. In addition, he was interested in natural science and wrote a lot of related contents in books.

요약
"대해의 물속에서 소리가 들립니다. 그것은 계속해서 사람을 부릅니다. 때때로 그것은 폭풍우 속에서 파도가 높고 거세게 뛰고 거친 바람이 마치 우리의 주의를 끌기라도 하는 것처럼 비명을 지르고 으르렁거릴 때 우레를 울립니다. 때때로 그것은 고요함 속에서 속삭이며 자갈이 깔린 해변에 잔물결을 일으키며 고요하고 작은 목소리로 우리의 안부를 청하는 듯 하지만 그 바다의 목소리가 부서지는 파도로 오든 부드러운 중얼거림으로 오든, 그 바다의 목소리는 말할 수 있는 이야기가 하나뿐입니다.

Summary
"A sound is heard in the waters of the Great Sea. It calls continually. Sometimes it thunders in a storm when the waves are high and raging and the rough winds scream and roar as if they are trying to get our attention. Sometimes it whispers in the stillness, ripples on the pebbled shore, and seems to call for our well-being in a still, small voice, but whether the voice of the sea comes as a crashing wave or a soft murmur, the voice of the sea will never speak. There is only one story that can be told.

CONTENTS

Chapter I. What the Ocean has to Say?Its Whispers?Its Thunders?Its Secrets.
Chapter II. Composition of the Sea?Its Salts?Power and Uses of Water?
Chapter III. Waves?System in all Things?Value of Scientific Knowledge?
Chapter IV. The Gulf Stream?Its Nature?Cause?Illustration?
Chapter V. The Atmospheric Ocean?Order in its Flow?Offices of the Atmosphere?
Chapter VI. Trade-winds?Storms?Their Effects?Monsoons?Their Value?Land and Sea Breezes?
Chapter VII. Waterspouts?Causes of?Appearance?Electricity?Experiments?
Chapter VIII. The Arctic Seas?Their Character, Scenery, and Atmospherical Illusions.
Chapter IX. Formation of Ice?Dangers of Disrupting Ice?Anecdote?Drifting Ice?
Chapter X. Icebergs?Their Appearance and Forms?Their Cause?Glaciers?
Chapter XI. Ice an Agent in transporting Boulders?How this comes about?
Chapter XII. Question of an Open Sea round the Poles?
Chapter XIII. Miscellaneous Phenomena of the Polar Seas and Regions?
Chapter XIV. Animal Life in the Sea?Medusae?Food of the Whale?
Chapter XV. Coral Insects and Coral Islands?Polynesia?
Chapter XVI. Volcanic Islands?Opinions of the Ancients?“Atlantis”?