Download or read book Prester John written by John Buchan and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-12-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book John Buchan written by J. William Galbraith and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-08-10 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Greenmantle written by John Buchan and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intrepid hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps returns in this gripping tale of WWI espionage. The action unfolds across enemy lines, climaxing in Constantinople, where German agents attempt to launch a jihad.
Download or read book Memory Hold the Door written by John Buchan and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Thirty nine steps Buchan written by John Buchan and published by Lebooks Editora. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875 – 1940), was a Scottish Unionist writer and politician who served as Governor General of Canada and became famous for his novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps". "The Thirty-Nine Steps" was published by Buchan in 1915 and adapted for the screen by Alfred Hitchcock two decades later, achieving great success both among readers and on the cinema screens. In the novel, the Scottish writer narrates the story of Richard Hannay who, during his vacation in London, decides to solve a mysterious case told to him by a woman he met in the city, who would shortly thereafter be murdered. In addition to being chosen by Hitchcock to be brought to the screens, the novel " The Thirty-Nine Steps", not coincidentally, is part of the famous collection: "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die."
Download or read book The Thirty Nine Steps written by John Buchan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1915 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fast-paced spy thriller, a self-described "ordinary fellow" stumbles upon a plot involving not only espionage and murder but also the future of Britain itself. This classic of suspense served as the basis for one of Hitchcock's most famous films and was the first novel in the author's Greenmantle series.
Download or read book Short Stories written by John Buchan and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition includes: Grey Weather The Ballad for Grey Weather Prester John At the Article of Death Politics and the May-Fly A Reputation A Journey of Little Profit At the Rising of the Waters The Earlier Affection The Black Fishers Summer Weather The Oasis in the Snow The Herd of Standlan Streams of Water in the South The Moor-Song Comedy in the Full Moon The Moon Endureth: The Company of the Marjolaine A Lucid Interval The Lemnian Space Streams of Water In The South The Grove of Ashtaroth The Riding of Ninemileburn The Kings of Orion The Rime of True Thomas The Runagates Club The Green Wildebeest Human Quarry, or The Frying-Pan and the Fire Dr. Lartius The Wind in The Portico "Divus" Johnston The Loathly Opposite Sing a Song of Sixpence Ship to Tarshish Skule Skerry "Tendebant Manus" The Last Crusade Fullcircle Miscellaneous The Far Islands Fountainblue The Last Crusade The Wife of Flanders The King of Ypres The Keeper of Cademuir No-Man's-Land Basilissa The Strange Adventure of Mr. Andrew Hawthorn John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian and also served as Canada's Governor General. His 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and biographies. But, the most famous of his books were the adventure and spy thrillers, most notably The Thirty-Nine Steps, and it is for these that he is now best remembered.
Download or read book Portraits of John Buchan Lord Tweedsmuir 1875 1940 and His Wife Susan Ca 1939 written by Tweedsmuir Portrait Collection and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gap in the Curtain written by John Buchan and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Gap in the Curtain" 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.
Download or read book The Path of the King by written by John Buchan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC 26 August 1875 - 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a brief legal career, Buchan simultaneously began his writing career and his political and diplomatic careers, serving as a private secretary to the colonial administrator of various colonies in southern Africa. He eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort in the First World War. Buchan was in 1927 elected Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities, but he spent most of his time on his writing career, notably writing The Thirty-Nine Steps and other adventure fiction. In 1935 he was appointed Governor General of Canada by King George V, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada R. B. Bennett, to replace the Earl of Bessborough. He occupied the post until his death in 1940. Buchan proved to be enthusiastic about literacy, as well as the evolution of Canadian culture, and he received a state funeral in Canada before his ashes were returned to the United Kingdom.
Download or read book Sick Heart River written by John Buchan and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Sick Heart River" 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.
Download or read book Huntingtower written by John Buchan and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huntingtower is a novel written by John Buchan in 1922. The first of his three Dickson McCunn novels takes place around 1920 in the district of Carrick in Galloway, Scotland. Dickson McCunn, a 55-year-old grocer, is the hero of the novel. Dickson McCunn decides to start his retirement with a walking holiday in the Carrick in Galloway district after selling his Glasgow grocery store. As soon as he sets out to explore the world, he is embroiled in bizarre and outlandish adventures, forcing him to become a reluctant hero.
Download or read book Salute to Adventurers 1915 by John Buchan a NOVELS written by John Buchan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salute to Adventurers is a 1915 novel by John Buchan. John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940), was a Scottish novelist and a Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan at first entered into a career in law in 1901, but almost immediately moved into politics, becoming private secretary to British colonial administrator Alfred Milner, who was high commissioner for South Africa, Governor of Cape Colony and colonial administrator of Transvaal and the Orange Free State. Buchan gained an acquaintance with the country that was to feature prominently in his writing. On his return to London, he became a partner in a publishing company while he continued to write books. In 1910, he wrote Prester John, the first of his adventure novels, set in South Africa. During World War I, he wrote for the War Propaganda Bureau and was a correspondent for The Times in France. In 1915, he published his most famous book The Thirty-Nine Steps, a spy thriller set just before the outbreak of World War I. The following year he published a sequel Greenmantle. Born in Perth, Scotland, Buchan was admitted to the University of Glasgow in 1892 to study classics; during his first year at university he edited the works of Francis Bacon, which were published in 1894.The following year he was awarded a scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford; shortly after his arrival he also published his first novel, Sir Quixote of the Moors, which he dedicated to Gilbert Murray, his university tutor. By the time he left the university he had published five books, including Scholar-Gipsies, the first work of non-fiction he wrote. Much of Buchan's non-fiction mirrored his circumstances: his time in South Africa resulted in The African Colony, the First World War led to a series of books about the war in general, and the Scottish and South African forces in particular. He interspersed his non-fiction with further novels, and also wrote ten biographies and four volumes of poetry, as well as numerous articles and stories for magazines and journals.During the war he wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps, the novel which has been adapted for film and television more than any of his other work, (film versions in 1935; 1959; and 1978, as well as a 2008 version for British television)....
Download or read book Augustus written by John Buchan and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Long Road to Victory 1920 by John Buchan World s Classics written by John Buchan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC 26 August 1875 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a brief legal career, Buchan simultaneously began his writing career and his political and diplomatic careers, serving as a private secretary to the colonial administrator of various colonies in southern Africa. He eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort in the First World War
Download or read book Days to Remember written by John Buchan and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Army during World War I fought the largest and most costly war in its long history. Unlike the French and German Armies, its units were made up exclusively of volunteers—as opposed to conscripts—at the beginning of the conflict. Furthermore, the British Army was considerably smaller than its French and German counterparts. Yet the army showed exemplary valour and courage on the battlefield. Buchan and Newbolt bring their expert analysis into their overview of the Great War and the reasons for it. John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and also served as Canada's Governor General. With the outbreak of the First World War, Buchan worked as a correspondent in France for The Times. Sir Henry John Newbolt (1862–1938) was an English poet, novelist and historian. He also had a very powerful role as a government adviser. He is perhaps best remembered for his poems "Vitaï Lampada" and "Drake's Drum".
Download or read book The Three Hostages written by John Buchan and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
