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  • The Thirty-Nine Steps
    John Buchan
    Richard Hannay arrives in London on the eve of World War I, where he meets an American agent seeking help in stopping a political assassination. Before long, Hannay finds himself in possession of a little black book that holds the key to the conspiracy — and on the run from both the police and members of a mysterious organization that will stop at nothing to keep their secrets ...
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    7,39 €

  • Greenmantle
    John Buchan
    A classic espionage and adventure novel set during The Great War, featuring the reckless Richard Hannay. Tasked with unraveling a mysterious message, Hannay travels through Germany and the Middle East, searching for the elusive religious leader ''Greenmantle'' 3 ...
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    9,40 €

  • Mr. Standfast
    John Buchan
    Set in the later years of World War I, Brigadier-General Hannay is recalled from active service on the Western Front to undertake a secret mission hunting for a dangerous German agent at large in Britain. He is forced to work undercover disguised as a pacifist, roaming the country incognito to investigate the deadly spy and his agents. 3 ...
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    11,69 €

  • Adventures Of Richard Hannay
    John Buchan
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    50,80 €

  • The Magic Walking Stick
    John Buchan
    'The Magic Walking Stick' is a fantastical children’s story about a pair of magical walking sticks; one that will cease to function if it is used for any practical purpose, and another that will cease to function if it isn’t. Unfortunately, our protagonist doesn’t know which one he possesses. It’s a charming and entertaining tale perfect for bedtime reading. John Buchan (1875 -...
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    27,01 €

  • Greenmantle
    John Buchan
    Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay. 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 w...
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    15,09 €

  • Greenmantle
    John Buchan
    Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay. 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 w...
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    34,33 €

  • The Thirty Nine Steps
    John Buchan
    Richard Hannay arrives in London on the eve of World War I, where he meets an American agent seeking help in stopping a political assassination. Before long, Hannay finds himself in possession of a little black book that holds the key to the conspiracy - and on the run from both the police and members of a mysterious organization that will stop at nothing to keep their secrets ...
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    20,84 €

  • The Thirty Nine Steps
    John Buchan
    Richard Hannay arrives in London on the eve of World War I, where he meets an American agent seeking help in stopping a political assassination. Before long, Hannay finds himself in possession of a little black book that holds the key to the conspiracy - and on the run from both the police and members of a mysterious organization that will stop at nothing to keep their secrets ...
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    34,67 €

  • HISTORY OF THE ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS 1678-1918
    John Buchan
    For the first ten years of its existence the regiment was on the Scottish establishment, but with the abdication of James II and the arrival of William (and Mary) the RSF came over to the English establishment as a Fusilier regiment (it had been equipped with ’fusils’ instead of matchlocks), first known as The Scots Fusiliers Regiment of Foot, changed around 1713 to The Royal N...
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    56,13 €

  • Chevalier D’eon De Beaumont
    John Buchan Telfer
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    27,24 €

  • The Last Secrets; the Final Mysteries of Exploration
    John Buchan
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    37,32 €

  • John Buchan’s 1914
    John Buchan
    The outbreak of the great war on the Eastern FrontThe Great War broke out in 1914. For those who live in the western world impressions of that catastrophic conflict are, perhaps inevitably, inspired by images of the Western Front with its ’No Man’s Land’ of mud and miles of trenches fringed with barbed wire. Although the soldiers who struggled in France and Belgium were norther...
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    27,71 €

  • John Buchan’s 1914
    John Buchan
    The outbreak of the great war on the Eastern FrontThe Great War broke out in 1914. For those who live in the western world impressions of that catastrophic conflict are, perhaps inevitably, inspired by images of the Western Front with its ’No Man’s Land’ of mud and miles of trenches fringed with barbed wire. Although the soldiers who struggled in France and Belgium were norther...
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    17,61 €

  • THE HISTORY OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES IN FRANCE
    John Buchan
    The great thriller writer and statesman John Buchan, author of ’The 39 Steps’ and other classics wrote this official history of the South African Forces in France as a homage to a country he had come to know and love as a British administrator after the Boer War. The South African brigade, raised from South African and Rhodesian regiments were sent to Egypt in 1915; and arrived...
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    33,43 €

  • The Island of Sheep
    John Buchan
    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. ...
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    27,41 €

  • The Far Islands
    John Buchan
    A wonderful tale of romance and adventure set among the islands off the north of Scotland. ...
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    18,17 €

  • The Dancing Floor
    John Buchan
    Edward Leithen is one of John Buchan’s most famous heroes. Here Leithen finds himself in Greece with an old friend and must save the life a stubborn but beautiful young women. ...
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    28,64 €

  • Witch Wood
    John Buchan
    First published in 1927 and set in the 17th century, this is a wonderful story of witchcraft in the forests of England. ...
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    30,46 €

  • A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys
    John Buchan
    A wonderful collection of stories dealing with escapes and adventurous journeys, including the escape of Charles II to France, Winston Churchill’s escape from South Africa and many more. ...
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    30,19 €

  • Sick Heart River
    John Buchan
    'Sick Heart River' is a powerful and compelling novel originally published in 1941. It is John Buchan’s last novel which was completed days before his death in 1940. It follows a dying protagonist, Edward Leithen, who confronts the question of the meaning of life while in the Canadian wilderness. Edward Leithen is perhaps John Buchan’s most autobiographical character and here L...
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    21,64 €

  • The Runagates Club
    John Buchan
    'The Runagates Club' is a 1928 compilation of twelve stories recounted as memories from John Buchan’s most well-known characters. Set in the fictional Runagates Club in central London in the early 1930s, a dining club for exceptional gentleman. Each month they meet and take it in turn to entertain the group with a story. This is full of compact stories that showcase Buchan at h...
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    28,69 €

  • The Free Fishers
    John Buchan
    A wonderful tale of treason and romance. Anthony Lammas, a professor at the St. Andrews University, finds himself involved in a web of intrigue that threatens the whole country. ...
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    21,40 €

  • A Lost Lady of Old Years
    John Buchan
    A classic historical romance by John Buchan. Set in Scotland amongst the chaos of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. Our hero is Francis Birkenshaw and man for who the Jacobite cause means nothing until a meeting with a beautiful Jacobite women called Margaret Murray, she offers him the chance of danger and adventure as we follow them both to Culloden moor. ...
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    21,81 €

  • The Three Hostages
    John Buchan
    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. ...
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    33,88 €

  • The Blanket of the Dark
    John Buchan
    A grand, sweeping historical drama. Set in Mediaeval England during a tense time as a the country waits for the new king to be crowned. A enthralling, richly detailed story of intrigue and passion. ...
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    31,82 €

  • John Burnet of Barns
    John Buchan
    John Buchan’s first full-length work of fiction. John Burnet and Captain Gilbert Burne are two young nobleman, one the heir to the house of Barns the last in a long line of Border reivers the other a dashing, ruthless soldier. Their lifelong rivalry leads to treachery, betrayal and murder. This classic works, originally published in 1898, is here being republished together with...
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    31,57 €

  • Sir Quixote of the Moors - Being Some Account of an Episode in the Life of the Sieur de Rohaine
    John Buchan
    The first novel by John Buchan is a fascinating insight into the themes that would continue to appear throughout all of his later work. Set in 17th century Scotland, the story revolves around the middle aged Jean Sieur de Rohaine and his battle to deal with the his sense of duty and emotional weakness. This classic works, originally published in 1896, is here being republished ...
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    26,11 €

  • The Thirty-Nine Steps
    John Buchan
    The Thirty-Nine Steps was originally published in 1915 as the first of 5 novels featuring Hannay, an all action hero with a particular knack for getting himself out of tight spot. John Buchan may hold the title of the man who invented spy adventure, bringing Richard Hannay fully formed to readers in the early 19th century. Hannay is just one of his masterful creations, Edward L...
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    31,61 €

  • Collected Supernatural Stories
    John Buchan
    A collection of fantastic supernatural tales by one of the finest writers of the 19th century. Tales include: The keeper of Cademuir, A Journey of Little Profit, The Outgoing of the Tide, No-man’s-land, The Watcher by the Threshold, The Grove of Ashtaroth, Space, Basilissa, Fullcircle, The Magic Walking Stick, The Strange Adventure of Mr. Andrew Hawthorn. This brilliant collect...
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    29,89 €


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