LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john buchan

319 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john buchan

  • MONTROSE A HISTORY
    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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    25,58 €

  • 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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    13,56 €

  • 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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    24,84 €

  • Nelson’s History of the war; Volume 1
    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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    21,68 €

  • A Lost Lady of Old Years
    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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    24,66 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Memory Hold-The-Door
    John Buchan
    John Buchan 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, had a remarkable life and here is his wonderfully written and fascinating memoir. Buchan can very readily be described as a man of empire, serving in the army during the Boer war and becoming a diplomat and well read historian of the First World War, he settled as Governor General of Canada in 1935 having travelled the world in official posts f...
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    42,30 €

  • A Prince of the Captivity
    John Buchan
    A classic John Buchan story of daring-do and espionage during World War I.A Prince of the Captivity is a 1933 novel by Scottish author John Buchan. It centres around Adam Melfort, a man who weds a young and beautiful socialite that does not return his love. After she forges her wealthy uncle’s signature on a cheque, Melfort takes the blame in an attempt to save her family’s nam...
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    38,33 €

  • The African Colony
    John Buchan
    A guide to South African politics and reconstruction after the terror and destruction of the Boer war. ...
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    31,61 €

  • The Richard Hannay Collection - Volume I - The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Standfast
    John Buchan
    Richard Hannay is the most famous creation of author and diplomat John Buchan. Hannay can be seen to be the first true action hero of British literature, a decorated soldier and spy, constantly needed by the government to thwart plots against the empire. Here collected are the first three novels to contain Richard Hannay. ...
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    52,52 €

  • Salute to Adventurers
    John Buchan
    A thrilling and superbly written historical romance. The story of Andrew Garveld, a young man born into a poor but once noble family, sets about changing his fortune by travelling to Edinburgh but meets many people along the way and events spiral and change his life forever. ...
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    34,22 €

  • Historical Romances of John Buchan - A Lost Lady of Old Years, Witch Wood, Sir Quixote of the Moors
    John Buchan
    John Buchan is one of the finest writers of historical romances, novels packed with beautifully described landscapes and rich powerful characters. ...
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    46,04 €