| Huntingtower by John Buchan, Fiction, Action & Adventure, Classics Contributor(s): Buchan, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1592245196 ISBN-13: 9781592245192 Publisher: Wildside Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2003 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: An old man, taking what may become the last walking tour of his life. . . . A young man who's a poet and a war hero, touring the countryside on foot after convalescing from the wounds he took on the front during the first world war. . . . A romantic, isolated, and forboding castle on the Scottish seacoast. . . . A Russian princess and the men who've kidnapped her. . . . It's a recipe for a recipe for romance and adventure, John Buchan style. Buchan was one of the best writers of this sort of thriller during the first half of the 20th Century; if you haven't read him, you're in for a real treat. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.94" W x 9.14" (0.80 lbs) 240 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Buchan, John: - "John Buchan (1875 - 11940) 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." |