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  • Mr. Standfast
    John Buchan
    I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car following the course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and the last tramping over a ridge of downland through great beech-woods to my quarters for the night. In the first part I was in an infamous temper; in the second I was worried and mystified; but the cool...
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    33,70 €

  • Mr. Standfast
    John Buchan
    I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car following the course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and the last tramping over a ridge of downland through great beech-woods to my quarters for the night. In the first part I was in an infamous temper; in the second I was worried and mystified; but the cool...
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    29,96 €

  • Supernatural Buchan - Stories of ancient spirits uncanny places and strange creatures
    John Buchan
    Supernatural Buchan - Stories of Ancient Spirits uncanny places and strange creatures.Buchan’s stories of solid characters clad in tweeds and braving all odds armed only with a stout walking stick have become popular classics. Perhaps it is therefore no surprise that the same character types populate his highly entertaining tales of the strange and weird - here collected into a...
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    19,67 €

  • Supernatural Buchan - Stories of ancient spirits uncanny places and strange creatures
    John Buchan
    Supernatural Buchan - Stories of Ancient Spirits uncanny places and strange creatures.Buchan’s stories of solid characters clad in tweeds and braving all odds armed only with a stout walking stick have become popular classics. Perhaps it is therefore no surprise that the same character types populate his highly entertaining tales of the strange and weird - here collected into a...
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    28,61 €

  • Huntingtower
    John Buchan
    Originally published in 1922, ’Huntingtower’ by John Buchan is set in Scotland and follows the adventures of Dickson McCunn, a newly retired grocer planning a modest walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland, where he meets John Heritage, a young English poet. However, their peaceful, idyllic ramblings soon turn into adventure, when they discover that two woman are be...
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    35,52 €

  • Prester John
    John Buchan
    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 ...
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    35,86 €

  • Greenmantle
    John Buchan
    Greenmantle’ is John Buchan’s second novel featuring the character of Richard Hannay and was first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. Greenmantle is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, ’Mr Standfast’ (1919) being the other. Hannay’s most famous adventure, ’The Thirty-Nine Steps’ (1915), is set just after the war. The chapters of this book incl...
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    37,68 €

  • The Thirty-Nine Steps
    John Buchan
    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 ...
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    30,97 €

  • The Thirty-Nine Steps
    John Buchan
    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 ...
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    34,70 €

  • Greenmantle by John Buchan, Fiction, Espionage, Literary, War & Military
    John Buchan
    I had just finished breakfast and was filling my pipe when I got Bullivant's telegram. It was at Furling, the big country house in Hampshire where I had come to convalesce after Loos, and Sandy, who was in the same case, was hunting for the marmalade. I flung him the flimsy with the blue strip pasted down on it, and he whistled. "Hullo, Dick, you've got the battalion. O...
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    14,30 €

  • Sir Walter Raleigh
    John Buchan
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    12,54 €

  • The Moon Endureth Tales And Fancies
    John Buchan
    The Moon Endureth Tales And Fancies is a collection of short stories and poems written by John Buchan. The book features a variety of tales that are inspired by different themes such as adventure, romance, and mystery. The stories are set in different locations and time periods, ranging from medieval Europe to the Scottish Highlands. Some of the tales are based on real events, ...
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    30,68 €

  • Mr. Standfast
    John Buchan
    ''Mr. Standfast'' is a thrilling adventure novel by John Buchan, first published in 1919. It is the third book in the ''Richard Hannay'' series, following ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' and ''Greenmantle''. The story follows the exploits of Richard Hannay, a former soldier and spy, as he becomes embroiled in a plot to sabotage the British war effort during World War I.Hannay, now a ...
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    39,01 €

  • Greenmantle
    John Buchan
    Greenmantle is a novel written by John Buchan and published in 1916. It is the second book in the Richard Hannay series, which follows the adventures of a Scottish adventurer and intelligence officer. The novel is set during World War I and follows Hannay as he is recruited by the British government to undertake a dangerous mission in the Middle East.Hannay is tasked with findi...
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    28,80 €

  • Prester John
    John Buchan
    Prester John is a novel by John Buchan, first published in 1910. The story follows the adventures of David Crawfurd, a young Scottish man who travels to South Africa to work as a storekeeper. However, he soon becomes embroiled in a dangerous and mysterious plot involving the mythical figure of Prester John, a Christian king said to rule over a lost kingdom in Africa.As Crawfurd...
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    30,71 €

  • Salute To Adventurers
    John Buchan
    ''Salute to Adventurers'' is a classic adventure novel by John Buchan. The story follows Francis Crawford, a Scottish gentleman who is forced to flee his homeland after being falsely accused of a crime. He embarks on a journey across Europe and the Middle East, encountering danger and intrigue at every turn. Along the way, he meets a cast of colorful characters, including a bea...
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    34,76 €

  • The 39 Steps
    John Buchan
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    14,38 €

  • The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, Fiction, Mystery & Detective
    John Buchan
    Richard Hannay certainly didn't go looking for the mystery. He was hardly a reader of the newspaper, let alone a fan of dime novels -- and all the same, the mystery found him. First in the form of a young American telling fantastic tales of international intrigue and murderous conspiracy. There was a cabal at work -- on a plot cleverly crafted to set the entire world at war...
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    14,65 €

  • The Thirty-Nine Steps
    John Buchan
    The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculou...
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    15,43 €


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