John Buchan
John Buchan

Author: J. William Galbraith

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2013-08-10

Total Pages: 721

ISBN-13: 145970939X

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Soldier, spy, politician, bestselling thriller writer, and governor general of Canada — John Buchan was a man of many seasons and talents. An accomplished Scottish journalist, soldier, head of intelligence, and Member of Parliament, John Buchan (1875-1940) is best known for penning thrillers such as The Thirty-Nine Steps. However, as Canada’s 15th governor general (1935-40), Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, played a significant leadership role as a statesman and diplomat. Buchan was the first governor general appointed after the 1931 Statute of Westminster, which gave Canada constitutional equality with Britain. He worked tirelessly for Canadian unity and promoted the sovereignty, and loyalty to the sovereign, of Canada. In 1937 he founded the Governor General’s Awards, still Canada’s premier prizes for literary achievement. Lord Tweedsmuir helped draw Canada, Britain, and the United States closer together to strengthen the democracies threatened by Nazism and Fascism. He was an inspiration to several of his successors and still inspires us today.

Prester John
Prester John

Author: John Buchan

Publisher: House of Stratus

Published: 2011-12-11

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0755117131

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After his father's death, our young hero sets off to make his fortune in South Africa. He gets tangled up in an African tribal uprising and a strange encounter and rumours he hears make him suspect that his destination may not be as predictable as he has supposed. Set at the turn of the last century, this is a riveting adventure story.

Memory Hold-the-Door
Memory Hold-the-Door

Author: John Buchan

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-01

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Memory Hold-the-Door" by John Buchan. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Prester John
Prester John

Author: John Buchan

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2014-04-15

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1473392454

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This classic book is John Buchan’s 1910 novel, “Prester John”. It tells the tale of a young Scottish man called David Crawfurd who travels to South Africa. Contents include: “The Man on the Kirkcaple Shore”, “Furth! Fortune!”, “Blauauwildebestefonein”, “My Journey to the Winter-Veld”, “Mr Wardlaw Has a Premonition”, “The Drums Beat at Sunset”, “Captain Arcoll Tells a Tale”, “I Fall in Again with the Reverend John Laputa”, “The Store at Umvelos’”, etc. John Buchan (1875–1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian who served as Governor General of Canada. Many classic books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

The Three Hostages
The Three Hostages

Author: John Buchan

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2015-04-24

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1473373646

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The fourth of the five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan. Here we find our hero Richard Hannay living a quiet life in the countryside with a wife and young child but his past comes back to haunt him and he once more must face up to an arch-enemy.

Augustus
Augustus

Author: John Buchan

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2020-09-17

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1528765583

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Four Adventures of Richard Hannay
The Four Adventures of Richard Hannay

Author: John Buchan

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 698

ISBN-13: 9780879238711

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John Buchan is the father of the modern spy thriller. This is so even though the Hannay books are not, strictly speaking, about spies at all in the professional sense of the word. They are about penetration of the enemy, about lonely escape and wild journeys, about the thin veneer that stands between civilsation and barbarism.

The Island of Sheep
The Island of Sheep

Author: John Buchan

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2015-04-24

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1473373557

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A classic Richard Hannay adventure novel by John Buchan. Richard Hannay is now in his fifties but once more must throw himself into an adventure to uphold a an oath he made in his youth to protect the son of a man he once knew, the son being an heir to the secret of a great treasure.

Greenmantle
Greenmantle

Author: John Buchan

Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton

Published: 1916

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13:

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Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion to help them win the war, climaxing at the battle of Erzurum.