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  • THE LAST SECRETS THE FINAL MYSTERIES OF EXPLORATION
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    THE LAST SECRETS THE FINAL MYSTERIES OF EXPLORATION
    JOHN BUCHAN
    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 ...

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  • GREENMANTLE
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    GREENMANTLE
    JOHN BUCHAN
    The second installment in the electrifying adventures of Richard Hannay, Britain's greatest secret agent Major Richard Hannay, hero of  The Thirty-Nine Steps, is recovering from wounds sustained in the bloody Battle of Loos when his old friend Sir Walter Bullivant summons him to the Foreign Office. Hoping for a promotion, Hannay is asked instead to investigate rumors that a "st...

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  • MR. STANDFAST
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    MR. STANDFAST
    JOHN BUCHAN
    In the last of his World War I adventures, Richard Hannay undertakes his most dangerous assignment yet When England calls, Richard Hannay answers. Not yet forty and already a brigadier general, he has led the charge into some of the fiercest fighting of World War I: Loos, the Somme, Arras. There is no telling how far up the ranks he might climb if only the Foreign Office would ...

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  • THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
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    THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
    JOHN BUCHAN
    The novel of international intrigue and adventure that set the standard for the modern spy thriller One May evening in 1914, an ordinary Londoner named Richard Hannay receives word of an anarchist plot to assassinate the prime minister of Greece. A few nights later, the eccentric American who revealed the conspiracy is found stabbed to death in Hannay's flat. With only the dead...

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  • MR. STANDFAST
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    MR. STANDFAST
    JOHN BUCHAN
    Recalled from active service on the Western Front, Richard Hannay is sent undercover on a secret mission to find a dangerous German agent at large in Britain. Disguised as a pacifist, Hannay travels from London to Glasgow to the Scottish Highlands and Islands in his search, which eventually ends in a spectacular climax above the battlefields of Europe. John Buchan’s inside know...

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  • GREENMANTLE
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    GREENMANTLE
    JOHN BUCHAN
    November 1915. Richard Hannay is tasked to undertake a top-secret mission to investigate rumours of a plot to create a holy war throughout the Muslim world and draw troops and resources from the Western Front. Hannay must journey to Constantinople through war-torn Europe, recruiting three loyal friends – Peter Pienaar, John S Blenkiron and Sandy Arbuthnot – to help him as he un...

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  • THE POWER HOUSE
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    THE POWER HOUSE
    JOHN BUCHAN
    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 dep...

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  • THE THREE HOSTAGES
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    THE THREE HOSTAGES
    JOHN BUCHAN
    After distinguished service in the First World War, Richard Hannay settles into peaceful domesticity with his wife Mary and their young son. However, news comes to him of three kidnappings. With no more than a few tantalisingly cryptic lines of verse as clues, he is soon on the trail of Dominick Medina – a charismatic polymath but a man ‘utterly and consumedly wicked’. As Hanna...

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  • HUNTINGTOWER
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    HUNTINGTOWER
    JOHN BUCHAN
    Recently retired, grocer Dickson McCunn decides to embark on a little walking tour in the Scottish Borders. Along the way he falls in with John Heritage, a young Englishman with a poet's heart. Together they become embroiled in a dangerous plot to kidnap an exiled Russian princess. With the help of the local worthies and the Gorbals Die-Hards – a plucky, resourceful gang of boy...

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  • PRESTER JOHN
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    PRESTER JOHN
    JOHN BUCHAN
    After his father dies, nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd is sent to South Africa to seek his fortune. A strange encounter on the voyage suggests that a tribal uprising is afoot, and David soon finds himself involved - at great risk to his life - with the charismatic leader, John Laputa. Prester John was John Buchan's first adventure story and is comparable in style and place to ...

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  • SICK HEART RIVER
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    SICK HEART RIVER
    JOHN BUCHAN
    Sir Edward Leithen - perhaps the autobiographical of Buchan's characters - is dying of tuberculosis and has been given a year to live. After this prognosis, Leithen undertakes a profoundly heroic quest from London to the Canadian Northwest, tracking down a missing man who is literally 'sick at heart'. In the course of this epic journey, Leithen finds redemption for himself.  Si...

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  • THE DANCING FLOOR
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    THE DANCING FLOOR
    JOHN BUCHAN
    A Scottish barrister gets entangled in a web of deadly superstition and danger on a small Greek island in this novel by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps.   Though Sir Edward Leithen is not one to take superstition seriously, he is sympathetic to his friend Vernon Milburne, who has been plagued by a recurring nightmare since childhood. Now, as the two men embark on an Aegean ...

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  • THE ISLAND OF SHEEP
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    THE ISLAND OF SHEEP
    JOHN BUCHAN
    The action occurs twelve years later on from the last novel, when Hannay, now in his fifties, is called by an old oath to protect the son of a man he once knew, who is also heir to the secret of a great treasure. (Wikipedia) ...

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  • HUNTINGTOWER
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    HUNTINGTOWER
    JOHN BUCHAN
    Huntingtower is a 1922 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It is the first of his three Dickson McCunn books. The action takes place in Scotland, in the district of Carrick in Galloway. Having sold his Glasgow grocery-store business, 55-year-old Dickson McCunn decides to start his retirement with a walking holiday in the district of Carrick in Galloway. At a local inn he ...

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  • SIR QUIXOTE OF THE MOORS
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    SIR QUIXOTE OF THE MOORS
    JOHN BUCHAN
    "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. (Excerpt from Wikipedia) ...

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  • THE THREE HOSTAGES
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    THE THREE HOSTAGES
    JOHN BUCHAN
    After the War, Hannay is married to Mary and living peacefully in the Cotswolds, when he receives a request to help solve the mysterious kidnapping of the children of three prominent people. Given nothing to go on but a few mysterious clues, Hannay, assisted by friends like Sandy Arbuthnot, must track down the dastardly villains behind the plot before it's too late... (Wikipedi...

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  • SALUTE TO ADVENTURERS
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    SALUTE TO ADVENTURERS
    JOHN BUCHAN
    Excerpt: "When I was a child in short-coats a spaewife came to the town-end, and for a silver groat paid by my mother she riddled my fate. It came to little, being no more than that I should miss love and fortune in the sunlight and find them in the rain. The woman was a haggard, black-faced gipsy, and when my mother asked for more she turned on her heel and spoke gibberish; fo...

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  • THE MOON ENDURETH: TALES AND FANCIES
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    THE MOON ENDURETH: TALES AND FANCIES
    JOHN BUCHAN
    The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by John Buchan is a captivating anthology that transports readers into realms of imagination and history. In "Morning Orison," an unnamed author crafts a mesmerizing journey through poetic landscapes set against a misty dawn, where serene solitude is interrupted by the bustling world below. As day breaks over ancient towns and harbors, reade...

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  • THE PATH OF THE KING
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    THE PATH OF THE KING
    JOHN BUCHAN
    John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir PC GCMG GCVO CH (1875 – 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, biographer and editor. Outside the field of literature he was, at various times, a barrister, a publisher, a lieutenant colonel in the Intelligence Corps, the Director of Information—reporting directly to prime minister David Lloyd George—during the First World War. Quote from bo...

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  • THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
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    THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
    JOHN BUCHAN
    John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was ill in bed with a duodenal ulcer, an illness which remained with him all his life. The novel was his first "shocker",...

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  • MR. STANDFAST
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    MR. STANDFAST
    JOHN BUCHAN
    John Buchan, born 26 August 1875 – died 11 February 1940) was a Scottish 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 both his writing career and his political and diplomatic career, serving as a private secretary to the colonial administrator o...

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  • THE POWER-HOUSE
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    THE POWER-HOUSE
    JOHN BUCHAN
    An international organization of anarchists threatens to overthrow civilization as we know it—and it's up to Edward Leithen to save the Western world A group of anarchists known as the Power-House sees all of civilization as a vast and sinister conspiracy, something to be overcome and destroyed. Standing up against the Power-House is Tory member of Parliament and lawyer Edward ...

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  • HUNTINGTOWER
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    HUNTINGTOWER
    JOHN BUCHAN
    Retired grocer Dickson McCunn embarks on the journey of a lifetime in John Buchan's classic adventure tale Dickson McCunn has led a respectable, if unremarkable, life. He's a grocer in Edinburgh and an esteemed member of the community. Still, he has a romantic spirit. For his entire life, all of his adventures have taken place in the pages of books, but he's always wanted to pl...

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  • THE BLANKET OF THE DARK
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    THE BLANKET OF THE DARK
    JOHN BUCHAN
    In this classic historical adventure by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, a young monastic scholar is groomed to take the throne from Henry VIII. It is 1536, and powerful men reveal to Peter Pentecost that it is he, and not the tyrannical Henry VIII, who should be on the throne of England. Can they persuade him to risk everything in a treasonable rebellion against the throne...

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  • THE FREE FISHERS
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    THE FREE FISHERS
    JOHN BUCHAN
    In this classic thriller by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, an English professor is drawn into a plot to assassinate the Prime Minister. When Anthony Lammas, minister of the Kirk and Professor of Logic at St. Andrews University, leaves his hometown for London on business, he little imagines that within two days he will be deeply entangled in a web of mystery and intrigue. ...

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  • JOHN BURNET OF BARNS
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    JOHN BURNET OF BARNS
    JOHN BUCHAN
    A young man must fight for his land and the woman he loves in 17th-century Scotland, in this historical novel by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps. The turbulent "Killing Times" of the Covenanters is the backdrop to a desperate struggle between lifelong rivals . . . John Burnet of Barns, the last of an ancient line of Border Reivers, returns home from abroad to find himself d...

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  • A LOST LADY OF OLD YEARS
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    A LOST LADY OF OLD YEARS
    JOHN BUCHAN
    A young man's yearning for adventure draws him into jeopardy during the Jacobite Rebellion in this historical novel by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps. Once described as "a tale of adventure and betrayal on the long bloody road to Culloden Moor," A Lost Lady of Old Years is set in Scotland during the Rebellion of 1745. Young Edinburgh-born Francis Birkenshaw cares nothing f...

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  • THE ISLAND OF SHEEP
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    THE ISLAND OF SHEEP
    JOHN BUCHAN
    In this classic by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, a retiring hero's past draws him into an action-packed adventure capped by a deadly standoff. A long-forgotten promise made by Richard Hannay finds him honor-bound to resolve a violent vendetta endangering the lives of a young father and his daughter from unscrupulous and desperate men. Hannay sets out on a high-octane cha...

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  • THE GAP IN THE CURTAIN
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    THE GAP IN THE CURTAIN
    JOHN BUCHAN
    In an English country house, a strange experiment is about to take place: "A gem . . . unadulterated entertainment" ( The New York Times).   In this unique blend of suspense, satire, and science fiction, Sir Edward Leithen settles in for a holiday weekend at Lady Flambard's stately home in the Cotswolds. But the house party turns strange when one of the guests, the enigmatic ph...

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  • JOHN MACNAB
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    JOHN MACNAB
    JOHN BUCHAN
    From the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, three bored, middle-aged men plot a challenging adventure in the Scottish Highlands in this classic novel. In 1925, John Buchan published his second most famous novel, John MacNab: three high-flying, middle-aged men—a barrister, a cabinet minister, and a banker—are suffering from boredom. They concoct a risky plan to cure it. They infor...

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