The Heroes Of John Buchan Richard Hannay In The Thirty Nine Steps Edward Leith In Sick Heart River Sandy Arbuthnot In The Courts Of The Morning

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 1126 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473373822

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The Heroes of John Buchan - Richard Hannay in 'The Thirty-Nine Steps' - Edward Leith in 'Sick Heart River' - Sandy Arbuthnot in 'The Courts of the Morning' by John Buchan Pdf

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 Leithen and Sandy Arbuthnot would follow the Hannay novels and bring their own unique adventures to millions of enthralled readers.

Author : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman,Donald N. Yates
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0786455225

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When Scotland Was Jewish by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman,Donald N. Yates Pdf

The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non–Celtic influence on Scotland’s history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland’s history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland’s identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors’ wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547110675

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Memory Hold-the-Door by John Buchan Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Memory Hold-the-Door" by John Buchan. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02T00:00:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781774645550

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Sick Heart River by John Buchan Pdf

"Sick Heart River" is the fifth book in the Edward Leithen series. This is Buchan's last novel, about a man who is dying, and it must reflect Buchan's own efforts to come to terms with his looming demise. "Sick Heart River" finds Leithen now in his late fifties facing a terminal diagnosis of turberculosis. Leithen has enjoyed a dazzling career as eminent barrister, member of Parliament, Cabinet minister, and attorney-general but with only months left to live, he leaves it all behind and takes up a whole new mission into the bleak arctic wilds of Canada. The friend of a friend, Francis Galliard, has gone missing in the North, and Leithen volunteers to find him and send him back, and so to die well, far away from the irking sympathy of his friends or the coddled atmosphere of the sick-room. But the North has some surprises in store for Leithen.

Author : Walter Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Fife (Scotland)
ISBN : OXFORD:591068930

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The east neuk of Fife: its history and antiquities [&c.]. by Walter Wood Pdf

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Prester John by John Buchan Pdf

The town of Kirkcaple, of which and its adjacent parish of Portincross my father was the minister, lies on a hillside above the little bay of Caple, and looks squarely out on the North Sea. Round the horns of land which enclose the bay the coast shows on either side a battlement of stark red cliffs through which a burn or two makes a pass to the water’s edge. The bay itself is ringed with fine clean sands, where we lads of the burgh school loved to bathe in the warm weather. But on long holidays the sport was to go farther afield among the cliffs; for there there were many deep caves and pools, where podleys might be caught with the line, and hid treasures sought for at the expense of the skin of the knees and the buttons of the trousers. Many a long Saturday I have passed in a crinkle of the cliffs, having lit a fire of driftwood, and made believe that I was a smuggler or a Jacobite new landed from France. There was a band of us in Kirkcaple, lads of my own age, including Archie Leslie, the son of my father’s session-clerk, and Tam Dyke, the provost’s nephew. We were sealed to silence by the blood oath, and we bore each the name of some historic pirate or sailorman. I was Paul Jones, Tam was Captain Kidd, and Archie, need I say it, was Morgan himself. Our tryst was a cave where a little water called the Dyve Burn had cut its way through the cliffs to the sea. There we forgathered in the summer evenings and of a Saturday afternoon in winter, and told mighty tales of our prowess and flattered our silly hearts. But the sober truth is that our deeds were of the humblest, and a dozen of fish or a handful of apples was all our booty, and our greatest exploit a fight with the roughs at the Dyve tan-work...FROM THE BOOKS.

Author : Peter Handyside M'Kerlie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Galloway (Scotland)
ISBN : WISC:89095868915

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History of the Lands and Their Owners in Galloway by Peter Handyside M'Kerlie Pdf

Author : E. J. Verwey
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0796916489

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New Dictionary of South African Biography by E. J. Verwey Pdf

This series of publications aims to fill the gaps in our history, highlighting in particular the significant roles played by black leaders form all walks of life.

Author : Anne Stibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Crossword puzzles
ISBN : OCLC:1259497052

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Crossword Lists by Anne Stibbs Pdf

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338071958

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The Courts of the Morning by John Buchan Pdf

"The Courts of the Morning" is an adventure novel by John Buchan. The novel, which features his character Sandy Arbuthnot, is set in Olifa, a fictional country on the west coast of South America. According to the plot introduction, Sandy Arbuthnot's friend John Blenkiron discovers that a charismatic industrial tycoon is plotting to rule the world from his base in the small South American country of Olifa. Upon learning that, Sandy leads a revolution to scuttle the plot and allow the Olifants to decide their fate.

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547754558

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John Macnab by John Buchan Pdf

Three successful but bored friends in their mid-forties decide to turn to poaching. They are Sir Edward Leithen, lawyer, Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), and ex-Attorney General; John Palliser-Yeates, banker and sportsman; and Charles, Earl of Lamancha, former adventurer and present Conservative Cabinet Minister. Under the collective name of 'John Macnab', they set up in the Highland home of Sir Archie Roylance, a disabled war hero who wishes to be a Conservative MP. They issue a challenge to three of Roylance's neighbours: first the Radens, who are an old-established family, about to die out; next, the Bandicotts: an American archaeologist and his son, who are renting a grand estate for the summer; and lastly the Claybodys, vulgar, bekilted nouveaux riches. These neighbours are forewarned that 'John Macnab' will poach a salmon or a stag from their land and return it to them undetected...

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473373556

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The Island of Sheep by John Buchan Pdf

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.

Author : Bulloch John Malcolm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243754744

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House of Gordon by Bulloch John Malcolm Pdf

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473373648

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The Three Hostages by John Buchan Pdf

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.

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857905086

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The Power House by John Buchan Pdf

The Power House is the first adventure of the classic Buchan hero, the prosperous Scots lawyer and MP Sir Edward Leithen, whose measured daily routine of 'flat, chambers, flat, club' is enlivened by the sudden disappearance of Charles Pitt-Heron, one of his Oxford contemporaries. Leithen steps up to the mark, coordinating efforts to thwart those responsible for his friend's departure; meanwhile, fellow politician Tommy Deloraine heads to Moscow to track down the missing man. As the investigation develops, Leithen finds himself pitted against green-spectacled villain Andrew Lumley and a terrifying interntional anarchist network called 'The Power-House'. With an introduction by Stella Rimington. This edition is authorised by the John Buchan Society.