His years at Oxford - 'spent peacefully in an enclave like a monastery' - nevertheless opened up yet more horizons and he published five books and many articles, won several awards including the Newdigate Prize for poetry and gained a First. Later they moved again to the Gorbals in Glasgow and John Buchan went to Hutchesons' Grammar School, Glasgow University (by which time he was already publishing articles in periodicals) and Brasenose College, Oxford. His father was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland and in 1876 the family moved to Fife where in order to attend the local school the small boy had to walk six miles a day. This edition illuminates for the first time the many levels beneath the stirring plot and romantic characters.John Buchan was born in Perth. In this classic espionage adventure Buchan shows his mastery of the thriller and the Stevensonian romance, and also his enormous knowledge of world politics before and during the First World War. The intrepid four move in disguise through Germany to Constantinople and the Russian border to face their enemies - the grotesque Stumm and the evil beauty of Hilda von Einem. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser and Sandy Arbuthnot, Greenmantle himself, modelled on Lawrence of Arabia.
He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout John S. In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. This edition illuminates for the first time the many levels beneath the stirring plot and romantic characters.
In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah.
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