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John Buchan and his World

John Buchan and his World

Janet Adam Smith
4/5 ( ratings)
John Buchan's fast-moving stories of high adventure and counter-espionage have inspired a whole generation of readers with their uncompromising heroes and stiff-upper-lip values. Although Buchan himself shared with his protagonists a love of challenge and a need to grapple with the unforeseen, he was in many ways a much more diverse and sensitive character. Not only did he write more than fifty books, including some distinguished biographies, but he was also a journalist, a publisher, and MP and, as the first Lord Tweedsmuir, a much-loved governor-general of Canada. Nevertheless his thrillers were distilled from a rich personal experience as tough and daunting as any that Richard Hannay and John Burnet would undergo.

As a young administrator in the aftermath of the Boer War he journeyed widely through the South African veld, often on horseback, and in the First World War he was a special correspondent for 'The Times' on the battlefront. Even at 60 he tackled an unclimbed mountain face in the frozen Canadian Arctic.

The aesthetic John Buchan, on the other hand, could be found in his publisher's office in London, where he helped to bring such writers as Wells and Conrad to a wider public, or at his country house near Oxford where scholars, politicians and wits would gather on Sunday afternoons for tea.

Janet Adam Smith, the author of a highly praised biography of Buchan, has had wide access to his family papers including previously unpublished photographs, and provides a penetrating insight into this statesman-cum-writer-cum-country gentleman. She captures the flavour not only of Buchan's energetic literary and political life but also of the 'happy moorland peace' of his native Scottish hills, which he loved best of all.
Language
English
Pages
128
Format
Unknown Binding
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Release
June 25, 1979
ISBN
0500130671
ISBN 13
9780500130674

John Buchan and his World

Janet Adam Smith
4/5 ( ratings)
John Buchan's fast-moving stories of high adventure and counter-espionage have inspired a whole generation of readers with their uncompromising heroes and stiff-upper-lip values. Although Buchan himself shared with his protagonists a love of challenge and a need to grapple with the unforeseen, he was in many ways a much more diverse and sensitive character. Not only did he write more than fifty books, including some distinguished biographies, but he was also a journalist, a publisher, and MP and, as the first Lord Tweedsmuir, a much-loved governor-general of Canada. Nevertheless his thrillers were distilled from a rich personal experience as tough and daunting as any that Richard Hannay and John Burnet would undergo.

As a young administrator in the aftermath of the Boer War he journeyed widely through the South African veld, often on horseback, and in the First World War he was a special correspondent for 'The Times' on the battlefront. Even at 60 he tackled an unclimbed mountain face in the frozen Canadian Arctic.

The aesthetic John Buchan, on the other hand, could be found in his publisher's office in London, where he helped to bring such writers as Wells and Conrad to a wider public, or at his country house near Oxford where scholars, politicians and wits would gather on Sunday afternoons for tea.

Janet Adam Smith, the author of a highly praised biography of Buchan, has had wide access to his family papers including previously unpublished photographs, and provides a penetrating insight into this statesman-cum-writer-cum-country gentleman. She captures the flavour not only of Buchan's energetic literary and political life but also of the 'happy moorland peace' of his native Scottish hills, which he loved best of all.
Language
English
Pages
128
Format
Unknown Binding
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Release
June 25, 1979
ISBN
0500130671
ISBN 13
9780500130674

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