Download or read book The Four Adventures of Richard Hannay written by John Buchan and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1988 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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.
Download or read book The Complete Richard Hannay written by John Buchan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1993-02-25 with total page 1305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains: Island of Sheep, Three Hostages, Mr Hostages, Mr Standfast, The 39 Steps.
Download or read book The Island of Sheep written by John Buchan and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Island of Sheep" 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 Sick Heart River written by John Buchan and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-12-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Edward Leithen is given a year to live and decides to devote his last months to seeking out and restoring to health Galliard, a young Canadian banker, who is searching for the 'River of the Sick Heart'. Braving an Arctic winter, Leithen finds the banker and then his own health returns, yet only one of the men will return to civilization ....
Download or read book The House of the Four Winds written by John Buchan and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2008-09-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to 'Huntingtower' and 'Castle Gay', 'The House of the Four Winds' is set in Central Europe in the 1930's. Scottish grocer Dickson McCunn features in his most exciting role. Gorbals Die-hards, Jaikie and his pals, are now dabbling in politics. On his trek across Europe, Jaikie is warned to avoid Evallonia. It is in danger of being overthrown by the cruel Mastrovin. However Jaikie cannot resist taking a look and ends up being kidnapped twice. Moreover, he is not the only one needing to be rescued, and Evallonia's fate hangs in the balance until Dickson McCunn appears on the scene.
Download or read book Greenmantle written by John Buchan and published by London : Hodder and Stoughton. This book was released on 1916 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Prester John written by John Buchan and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prester John is an adventure thriller novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. Nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd travels from Scotland to South Africa to work as a storekeeper. On the voyage he encounters again John Laputa, the celebrated Zulu minister, of whom he has strange memories. In his remote store David finds himself with the key to a massive uprising, led by the minister, who has taken the title of the mythical priest-king, Prester John. David's courage and his understanding of this man take him to the heart of the uprising, a secret cave in the Rooirand. John Buchan wrote Prester John seven years after he himself returned from South Africa. It was his first to reach a wide readership across the world, and it established him as the writer of fast-paced adventures for which he is famous.
Download or read book The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn Other Stories written by John Buchan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn' and the other stories in this collection, peculiar worlds of temptation, adventure or iniquity are perilously close at hand. Mr Hawthorn himself steps outside to allow his porridge to cool and disappears for five years and more, a Glasgow grocer is shipwrecked and ultimately worshipped as a god, a young mathematician discovers an entirely new aspect of reality and becomes terrified by what he finds there, and an ageing sinner clings grimly, weakly to a hard-won life of decency: John Buchan in each demonstrating his abilities as a gripping writer of short stories. In his introduction, Giles Foden explores Buchan's innate sense of the fascination held by sudden jeopardy and vanished comfort, and the themes of the will and fate in his work.
Download or read book Wunderkind written by Nikolai Grozni and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the tail end of the Cold War as seen through the eyes of a brilliant fifteen-year-old pianist.
Download or read book The Thirty Nine Steps Warbler Classics Annotated Edition written by John Buchan and published by Warbler Classics. This book was released on 2021-12-18 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As war looms in Europe, Richard Hannay returns from Rhodesia to his home in London. His neighbor, an American freelance spy named Franklin Scudder, claims to know of an assassination plot to destabilize Europe. When Hannay finds Scudder dead in his flat he is drawn into a fast-paced labyrinthine adventure that takes him from the hills of Scotland to an unassuming location by the sea. The progenitor of the classic man-on-the-run thriller, The Thirty-Nine Steps first appeared as a serial adventure story in Blackwood's Magazine from August to September 1915 and in book form in October of that year. Since its publication it has never been out of print and has been frequently adapted for television, radio, theater, and film, including, quite famously, a 1935 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Download or read book Mr Standfast written by John Buchan and published by London : Hodder & Stoughton, [1919]?.. This book was released on 1919 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mission to Tashkent written by F.M. Bailey and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accused by Moscow of being a British master-spy, Colonel F.M. Bailey recounts the 16-month game of cat-and-mouse he played with the Bolshevik secret police. At one point, with a false identity, he joined the ranks of the latter, who unsuspectingly sent him to Bokhara to arrest himself.
Download or read book The Richard Hannay Trilogy the Thirty Nine Steps Greenmantle Mr Standfast written by John Buchan and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have laughed at him; but there was the fact. The weather made me liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick, I couldn't get enough exercise, and the amusements of London seemed as flat as soda-water that has been standing in the sun. 'Richard Hannay, ' I kept telling myself, 'you have got into the wrong ditch, my friend, and you had better climb out.' It made me bite my lips to think of the plans I had been building up those last years in Bulawayo. I had got my pile-not one of the big ones, but good enough for me; and I had figured out all kinds of ways of enjoying myself. My father had brought me out from Scotland at the age of six, and I had never been home since; so England was a sort of Arabian Nights to me, and I counted on stopping there for the rest of my days.
Download or read book Watch William Walk written by Ann Jonas and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this alliterative story with all words beginning with "w", William and Wilma take a walk with Wally the dog and Wanda the duck.
Download or read book The Thirty Nine Steps Greenmantle and Mr Standfast written by John Buchan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Buchan was a Scottish politician, historian, and writer. Buchan served as the Governor General of Canada and he was also noted for writing propaganda for the British army during World War I. Buchan is best remembered now for being a prolific author and his most famous work, The Thirty-Nine Steps, has been adapted into film and recently was the basis of a popular British television show. The Thirty-Nine Steps, published in 1915, is the first novel featuring the legendary character Richard Hannay. The book is set just before the outbreak of World War I and centers around Hannay as he learns of a plot to destabilize Europe. Greenmantle, published in 1916, is the sequel novel to The Thirty-Nine Steps. The book is set during World War I and centers around Hannay as he travels to the Middle East to investigate a religious uprising. Mr. Standfast, published in 1919, is the third novel featuring Hannay. The book is also set during World War I and centers around Hannay as he attempts to decode messages using his copy of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
Download or read book Links of Heaven written by Richard Phinney and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is part practical guide to Ireland's finest golf courses and part travel guide. The chapters on individual courses, their histories and characteristics are interspersed with anecdotes that bring Ireland and its golfers to life. Information on food and drink, and accomodation is also included.
