ALL of Mr. Buchan’s novels that I can recall begin in a scene of repose and rise rapidly into activity and violence. John Macnab starts even lower. The protagonists, who are three successful men of ...
In John Buchan's 1925 novel, 'John Macnab', three bored London gentlemen try to spice up their lives by going poaching on Scottish estates. These days the ultimate challenge for would-be hunters is to ...
John Buchan was a prodigious writer who produced biographies, a multi-volume history of the First World War and 29 novels, five of them featuring Richard Hannay, most famously The Thirty-Nine Steps.
Many years ago, a famous outdoor writer and I went to Scotland to attempt a challenge based loosely on the Macnab Challenge to take a stag, a brace of grouse and catch a salmon in one day. The Macnab ...
In John Buchan's 1925 novel, 'John Macnab', three bored London gentlemen try to spice up their lives by going poaching on Scottish estates. These days the ultimate challenge for would-be hunters is to ...
JOHN BUCHAN remains the very stuff of controversy, as the letter pages of The Herald have shown this year. He is also box office, one of Scotland's best loved writers. And none of his books was, and ...
GREENMANTLE; JOHN MACNAB; THE HOUSE OF THE FOUR WINDS; CASTLE GAY — John Buchan — Penguin Books (85¢ each). Has some scoundrel been fomenting a holy war in Turkey? Can the dastardly plot to do in the ...
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