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  • The Moon Endureth
    John Buchan
    A collection of short stories and poetry by John Buchan...BioJohn Buchan (August 1875 - 11 February 1940) was a British 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 priva...
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  • The Moon Endureth
    John Buchan
    A collection of short stories and poetry by John Buchan...BioJohn Buchan (August 1875 - 11 February 1940) was a British 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 priva...
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    29,47 €

  • Mr. Standfast
    John Buchan
    Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton, London.It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Greenmantle (1916); Hannay’s first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately before the war started.The title refers to a charac...
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    19,80 €

  • Mr. Standfast
    John Buchan
    Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton, London.It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Greenmantle (1916); Hannay’s first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately before the war started.The title refers to a charac...
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    31,75 €

  • The Watcher by the Threshold
    John Buchan
    The Watcher by the Threshold, and other tales is a collection of early novellas and stories, most with supernatural elements, by the Scottish author John Buchan. When first published in the UK in 1902 the collection included five stories, mainly set in the Scottish Borders. The collection was republished for the US market in 1918 under the title The Watcher by the Threshold, wi...
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    28,32 €

  • The Power-House
    John Buchan
    The Power-House is a novel by John Buchan, a thriller set in London, England. It was written in 1913, when it was serialised in Blackwood’s Magazine, and it was published in book form in 1916. The narrator is the barrister and Tory MP Edward Leithen, who features in a number of Buchan’s novels. The urban setting contrasts with that of its sequel, John Macnab, which is set in th...
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    27,09 €

  • Prester John
    John Buchan
    Prester John is a 1910 adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It tells the story of a young Scotsman named David Crawfurd and his adventures in South Africa, where a Zulu uprising under the charismatic black minister John Laputa is tied to the medieval legend of Prester John.This was Buchan’s sixth published novel, but the first to reach a wide readership, establis...
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    17,63 €

  • Prester John
    John Buchan
    Prester John is a 1910 adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It tells the story of a young Scotsman named David Crawfurd and his adventures in South Africa, where a Zulu uprising under the charismatic black minister John Laputa is tied to the medieval legend of Prester John.This was Buchan’s sixth published novel, but the first to reach a wide readership, establis...
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    28,27 €

  • Salute to Adventurers
    John Buchan
    One of Buchan’s early books.... But the pace of the novel moved swiftly enough that I could easily imagine it as a movie unfolding scene by scene. A Critique of Buchan is that his spy novels become formulaic. This is neither. This is a novel that captures the grand adventure of being an early American settler! (Mark)BioJohn Buchan (August 1875 - 11 February 1940) was a British ...
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    18,76 €

  • Salute to Adventurers
    John Buchan
    One of Buchan’s early books.... But the pace of the novel moved swiftly enough that I could easily imagine it as a movie unfolding scene by scene. A Critique of Buchan is that his spy novels become formulaic. This is neither. This is a novel that captures the grand adventure of being an early American settler! (Mark)BioJohn Buchan (August 1875 - 11 February 1940) was a British ...
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    30,70 €

  • The Half-Hearted
    John Buchan
    The Half-Hearted is a 1900 novel of romance and adventure by the Scottish author John Buchan. It was Buchan’s first novel in a modern setting and was written when he was 24 while working for an All-Souls fellowship and reading for the bar. In Clubland Heroes (1953, revised 1974), Richard Usborne suggested that this novel is in some ways more revealing of the Buchan ’decent-fell...
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    18,74 €

  • Witch Wood
    John Buchan
    Witch Wood is a 1927 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan that critics have called his masterpiece. The book is set in the Scottish Borders during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and combines the author’s interests in landscape, 17th century Calvinism, and the fate of Scotland. A significant portion of the dialogue is in Scots. Witch Wood was written while Buchan was resear...
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    21,11 €

  • The Thirty-Nine Steps
    John Buchan
    The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by Scottish author John Buchan. It was serialized in All-Story Weekly (June 5 and June 12, 1915) and Blackwood’s Magazine (credited to 'H de V.', July - September 1915) before being published in book form in October 1915 by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first of the five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-actio...
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    16,47 €

  • Witch Wood
    John Buchan
    Witch Wood is a 1927 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan that critics have called his masterpiece. The book is set in the Scottish Borders during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and combines the author’s interests in landscape, 17th century Calvinism, and the fate of Scotland. A significant portion of the dialogue is in Scots. Witch Wood was written while Buchan was resear...
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    31,75 €

  • The Last Secrets
    John Buchan
    Subtitled ’The Final Mysteries of Exploration’, The Last Secrets contains eight accounts of recently achieved feats of exploration.CONTENTS              Preface  I             Lhasa  II            The Gorges of the Brahmaputra  III           The North Pole  IV           The Mountains of the Moon  V            The South Pole  VI           Mount McKinley  VII         The Holy Cit...
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    16,38 €

  • The Path of the King
    John Buchan
    The Path of the King is a 1921 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, presented as a loosely-coupled series of short stories. In a prologue to the novel, three men discuss around a campfire the notion that the ’spark’ of masterful men may be transmitted down from generation to generation, and even though it may smoulder for generations and may seem lost, will reappear and fl...
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    18,82 €

  • The Path of the King
    John Buchan
    The Path of the King is a 1921 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, presented as a loosely-coupled series of short stories. In a prologue to the novel, three men discuss around a campfire the notion that the ’spark’ of masterful men may be transmitted down from generation to generation, and even though it may smoulder for generations and may seem lost, will reappear and fl...
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    29,46 €

  • Midwinter
    John Buchan
    Midwinter: Certain travellers in old England is a 1923 historical novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It is set during the Jacobite rising of 1745, when an army of Scottish highlanders seeking to place Charles Stuart onto the English throne advanced into England as far South as Derby. The Prince, otherwise known as 'Bonnie Prince Charlie', the grandson of the ousted King ...
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    18,74 €

  • Greenmantle
    John Buchan
    Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character Richard Hannay. It was first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr. Standfast (1919); Hannay’s first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately preceding the war...
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    18,73 €

  • Huntingtower
    John Buchan
    Huntingtower is a 1922 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, initially serialised in Popular Magazine between August and September 1921. It is the first of his three Dickson McCunn books, the action taking place in the district of Carrick in Galloway, Scotland. Initial reviews were generally favourable. The New York Times found the book delightful, if improbable, and conclu...
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    29,47 €

  • John Burnet of Barns
    John Buchan
    A good yarn from another age. A relaxing antidote to modern writing!BioJohn Buchan (August 1875 - 11 February 1940) was a British 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 ...
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    19,88 €

  • John Burnet of Barns
    John Buchan
    A good yarn from another age. A relaxing antidote to modern writing!Bio:John Buchan (August 1875 - 11 February 1940) was a British 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...
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    30,52 €

  • Greenmantle
    John Buchan
    Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character Richard Hannay. It was first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr. Standfast (1919); Hannay’s first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately preceding the war...
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    30,67 €

  • Huntingtower
    John Buchan
    Huntingtower is a 1922 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, initially serialised in Popular Magazine between August and September 1921. It is the first of his three Dickson McCunn books, the action taking place in the district of Carrick in Galloway, Scotland. Initial reviews were generally favourable. The New York Times found the book delightful, if improbable, and conclu...
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    18,83 €

  • Greenmantle
    John Buchan
    The second of John Buchan’s five books with the Richard Hannay character is titled Greenmantle. London’s Hodder & Stoughton published it for the first time in 1916. The other Hannay book set during the Great War is Mr. Standfast (1919). The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), Hannay’s earliest and best-known adventure, takes place in the years just before the war. Hannay travels through ...
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    25,60 €

  • Mr. Standfast
    John Buchan
    Mr. Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Greenmantle (1916); Hannay’s first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately before the war started. The title refers to a cha...
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    28,86 €

  • Prester John
    John Buchan
    The 1910 adventure book Prester John was written by Scottish novelist John Buchan. It narrates the tale of a young Scotsman named David Crawfurd and his exploits in South Africa, where a Zulu insurrection led by the ebullient black pastor John Laputa is connected to the medieval legend of Prester John. The year of publishing (1900) serves as the period for the setting. Laputa, ...
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    23,46 €

  • The Thirty-Nine Steps
    John Buchan
    John Buchan, a Scot, wrote the adventure book The Thirty-Nine Steps.Richard Hannay, a mining engineer who had previously worked in Rhodesia, returns to London in 1914. Franklin P. Scudder, a neighbor, claims to be investigating a group of German spies known as the Black Stone who are attempting to steal Britain’s naval defense blueprints in preparation for war. Hannay leaves hi...
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    18,05 €

  • The Island of Sheep
    Harmonia Harmonia / 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 is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    34,66 €

  • The Battle of the Somme
    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 is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    26,08 €


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