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  • The Leithen Stories

    by John Buchan ...
    Series series Canongate Classics
    Four classic adventure novels starring Scottish hero Sir Edward Leithen from the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, who "invented the modern spy novel" ( New Statesman).Sir Edward Leithen, lawyer, politician, sportsman and occasional philosopher, was probably the most autobiographical of John Buchan's heroes. This collection of four novels, written over a span of thirty years, shows Leithen/Buchan ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nineteenth-Century Britain

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Thirty-Nine Steps

    by John Buchan ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an `ordinary fellow', is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. Hannay is hunted across the Scottish moors by police and spy-ring alike, and must outwit his ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Scotland: A Short History

    new edition

    by Christopher Harvie ...
    Christopher Harvie, one of Scotland's leading historians and political writers, takes a long view of Scotland: its land, people, and culture. Scotland: A History sweeps from the earliest settlements to the new Parliament of 1999 and beyond. It describes the unique multi-ethnic kingdom which emerged from the Dark Ages, the small, proud nation manoeuvring among the great powers of medieval Europe, ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • No Gods and Precious Few Heroes

    Twentieth-Century Scotland

    by Christopher Harvie ...
    Series series New History of Scotland

    $20.39 USD

  • The Rise of Regional Europe

    by Christopher Harvie ...
    Series series Historical Connections
    In the 1970s and 1980s there was a steady transfer of power in mainland Europe to new, powerful regional authorities and these, in their turn, started to build up a new form of intra-European co-operation. With the acceleration of European integration, the rise of the multinational firm and new media and transport technologies, the traditional defence-based nation-states are under threat. In this ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Centre of Things

    Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present

    by Christopher Harvie ...
    `This is an excellent survey of the British political novel.' - Contemporary Review ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Witch Wood

    by John Buchan ...
    Series Book 22 - Canongate Classics
    Set against the religious struggles of seventeenth-century Scotland, with Montrose for the king against a convenanted kirk, John Buchan's Witch Wood is a gripping atmospheric tale in the spirit of Stevenson and Neil Munro.As a moderate Presbyterian minister, young David Sempill disputes with the extremists of his faith. All around, the defeated remnants of Montrose's men are being harried and ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • John Buchan: Ten Books

    by John buchan ...
    Classic British Works: 10 Books by John Buchan includes The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction, Greenmantle, The Half-Hearted, Huntingtower, The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies, Mr Standfast, The Path Of The King, Prester John, Salute To Adventurers, and The Thirty-Nine Steps. According to Wikipedia, "John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 11 February 1940) was a Scottish ... Read more

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  • Prestor John

    by John Buchan ...
    "Prester John is a splendid story, not merely compact with thrilling scenes, but distinguished by a fine literary flavour, due partly to the author's style and partly to his ability to describe men who are not mere automatons. Davie Crawfurd, Laputa, Wardlaw, an Aberdeen schoolmaster; Henriques, a dirty Portuguese scoundrel, and others are men of flesh and blood as living and real as the people ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Mr. Standfast

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by 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 of various colonies ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Thirty-Nine Steps

    by John Buchan ...
    Richard Hannay arrives in London on the eve of World War I, where he meets an American agent seeking help in stopping a political assassination. Before long, Hannay finds himself in possession of a little black book that holds the key to the conspiracy - and on the run from both the police and members of a mysterious organization that will stop at nothing to keep their secrets hidden. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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