Author: John BuchanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Midwinter, Certain Travellers in Old England, by John Buchan
Author: John BuchanMidwinter
Author: John BuchanPublisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8728290984
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Double agents, espionage and romance, this historical story transports you back to the Jacobite rising in 1745 and in the midst of an attempt by Scottish highlanders to place Bonnie Prince Charlie on the English throne. The plot follows Alastair Maclean, who has been exiled to France, and returns to join the Jacobite army as it moves towards London. Along the way he uncovers double agents, working for both the Jacobites and the British, and falls in love with an enemy's wife. With masses of old-world descriptions and scene-setting, you will walk the roads with the Scottish rebels as they conjure up support and surge forward to London. John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, was a British novelist and historian. He was also known as a Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. After a brief legal career, he started his writing, political and diplomatic careers at the same time; first serving as a private secretary to the administrator of various colonies in southern Africa. He eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort during the First World War. He was elected Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities in 1927, but spent most of his time on his writing career, notably writing 'The Thirty-Nine Steps', which was later filmed by Alfred Hitchcock and other adventure fiction.
Midwinter - Certain Travellers in Old England
Author: John BuchanPublisher: Owens Press
ISBN: 1409791149
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Midwinter: Certain Travellers in Old England
Author: John BuchanPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Midwinter is a historical spy novel by John Buchan. The story is set in the time of Bonnie Prince Charlie. It was a period of the Jacobite rising of 1745/46. The story's protagonist is a captain of the Scottish army. He travels through England to join his Prince in Scotland and encounters numerous adventures on the way.
Midwinter (Esprios Classics)
Author: John BuchanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Midwinter: Certain travellers in old England is a 1923 historical novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It is set during the Jacobite rising of 1745, when an army of Scottish highlanders seeking to place Charles Stuart onto the English throne advanced into England as far South as Derby. The Prince, otherwise known as "Bonnie Prince Charlie", the grandson of the ousted King James II, required men and money from English Jacobite sympathisers, and the novel imagines why those were not forthcoming from landowners in the Western counties and Wales. It purports to sheds light on Samuel Johnson's previously unknown activities during that period.
Midwinter Annotated
Author: John BuchanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Midwinter: Certain travellers in old England is a 1923 historical novel by John Buchan.It is set during the Jacobite rising of 1745, when an army of Scottish highlanders advanced into England seeking to place Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Stuart), the grandson of ousted King James II, on the throne.
Midwinter. Certain travellers in old England. A novel.
Author: John BuchanMidwinter Illustrated
Author: John BuchanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Midwinter: Certain travellers in old England is a 1923 historical novel by John Buchan. It is set during the Jacobite rising of 1745, when an army of Scottish highlanders advanced into England seeking to place Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Stuart), the grandson of ousted King James II, on the throne.
Reassessing John Buchan
Author: Kate MacdonaldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317303393
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
A collection of edited essays on the novelist John Buchan (1875-1940), author of, among many other works, "The Thirty-Nine Steps" (1915), "Witch Wood" (1927) and "Sick Heart River" (1940). It considers Buchan's writing and reputation from the perspective of the twenty-first century and examines Buchan's major fiction and non-fictional writing.
Loyalty and Identity
Author: P. MonodPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230248578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This collection of essays provides a series of fresh approaches to a fascinating subject: Jacobitism. The contributors focus on issues of identity and memory among Jacobites in Scotland, Ireland, England and Europe. They examine Jacobitism as an integral aspect of culture and society in the British Isles and beyond during the century after 1688.