John Buchan
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English
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"Sir Quixote of the Moors" is an 1895 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It is Buchan's first novel, written when he was nineteen and an undergraduate at Glasgow University. The novel is set in Galloway in Scotland in the late 17th century, and follows the adventures of the impoverished Jean Sieur de Rohaine.
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English
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Introduced by Christopher Harvie.
Sir Edward Leithen, lawyer, politician, sportsman and occasional philosopher, was probably the most autobiographical of John Buchan’s heroes. This collection of four novels, written over a span of thirty years, shows Leithen/Buchan in all his moods from the urban menace of The Power House in which the thin line between civilisation and barbarism runs through London’s West End; to the Highland exhilaration of...
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English
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The John Buchan Collection: the essential collection of books by John Buchan in one collection:
• Greenmantle
• The Half-Hearted
• Huntingtower
• The Moon Endureth-Tales and Fancies
• Mr. Standfast
• The Path of the King
• Prester John
• Salute to Adventurers
• The Thirty-Nine Steps
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Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Author and diplomat John Buchan lived a remarkable life, achieving prominence and success in a number of fields—often simultaneously. Soon after embarking on an administrative career in Africa, Buchan began writing fiction and non-fiction, endeavors he would continue throughout his life, even after he was elected to Parliament. The essays and remembrances collected in The African Colony cover the time Buchan spent there and his impressions
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Excerpt: "The first two decades of the twentieth century will rank as a most distinguished era in the history of exploration, for during them many of the great geographical riddles of the world have been solved. This book contains a record of some of the main achievements. What Nansen said of Polar exploration is true of all exploration; its story is a "mighty manifestation of the power of the Unknown over the mind of man." The Unknown, happily, will...
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English
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'Midwinter' is a wonderfully written historical novel. Alastair Maclean. A scottsman, who has been in exile in, France goes to Englad to join the Scottish Army as it advances on London. In route, Maclean discovers a plot that will endanger the Scottish cause. Further complicating his situation he finds himself falling in love with a married English Lady. He must decide between honor, love, and country.
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The Moon Endureth, subtitled 'Tales and Fancies', is a 1912 short story and poetry collection by the Scottish author John Buchan. In its review of the first edition The Athenaeum noted "a marked leaning towards the mysterious and bizzare". The collection was said to show "considerable imagination, and occasionally a touch of delicate satire".
48) Four Tales - The Thirty-Nine Steps - The Power-House - The Watcher by the Threshold - The Moon En
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English
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This early works containing four tales is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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English
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John Buchan, who served in Intelligence during World War I, wrote over 100 books, including seven collections of short stories. Although he is best known for his five Richard Hannay thrillers (including The 39 Steps, the basis for an Alfred Hitchcock film), some of his most lucid and enjoyable writing can be found in his lesser known short stories. Here are tales about war-time code breaking, cannibalism, and swashbuckling adventure during the times...
50) Midwinter
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English
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Alistair Maclean is a soldier in the employ of Lee's Regiment and an agent of Bonnie Prince Charlie at the height of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Amidst seeking support from the English Grandees for his masters cause, he finds himself embroiled in twisted web of deceit and betrayal that lies in the very heart of the Jacobite cause. He finds help coming from the unlikely source of the mysterious "Midwinter" and his all seeing army of Spoonbills. Men...
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ImPress
Pub. Date
�2009
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English
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The thirty-nine steps: Recently returned from Rhodesia to London, Hannay is enlisted to help a freelance spy who has uncovered a German plot to assassinate the Greek premier and steal British plans for the outbreak of the war.
Greenmantle: Hannay is recruited by the Foreign Office to investigate uprisings in the Muslim world, and to thwart the German's plans to use religion to help them win the war.
52) Stories We Tell
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English
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Documentary looking at how every member of a family remembers key events differently, and how this may have shaped their future.
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Digiview Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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Jamaica Inn: An Irish orphan girl goes to live with an uncle who is discovered to be involved in a group of smuggling highwaymen ravaging the area.
Sabotage: An undercover Scotland yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage.
The 39 steps: Character Richard Hanney stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.
Easy virtue: A woman goes through a divorce and attempts...
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Audio Partners
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p2005., p2005., p2005, p2005., p2005., p2005., p2005., p2005
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English
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Reginald on house parties / Saki - The Sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde -- Tobermory / Saki -- On being idle / Jerome K. Jerome -- For better or worse / W.W. Jacobs -- The model millionaire / Oscar Wilde -- The garden of truth / E. Nesbit -- The cat that walked by himself / Rudyard Kipling -- The girl from Arles / Alphonse Daudet -- Mr. & Mrs. Dove / Katherine Mansfield -- Georgie Porgie / Rudyard Kipling -- Caterpillars / E.F. Benson -- Lost...