John Buchans name is known across the world for The ThirtyNine Steps. In the past one hundred years the classic thriller has never been out of print and has inspired numerous adaptations for film, television, radio and stage, beginning with the celebrated version by Alfred Hitchcock. Yet there was vastly more to JB. He wrote more than a hundred books fiction and nonfiction and a thousand articles for newspapers and magazines. He was a scholar, antiquarian, barrister, colonial administrator, journal editor, literary critic, publisher, war correspondent, director of wartime propaganda, member of parliament and imperial proconsul given a state funeral when he died, a deeply admired and loved GovernorGeneral of Canada.His teenage years in Glasgows Gorbals, where his father was the Free Church minister, contributed to his ease with shepherds and ambassadors, furtrappers and prime ministers. His improbable marriage to a member of the aristocratic Grosvenor family means that this account of his life contains, at its heart, an enduring love story.Ursula Buchan, his granddaughter, has drawn on recently discovered family documents to write this comprehensive and illuminating biography. With perception, style, wit and a penetratingly clear eye, she brings vividly to life this remarkable man and his times.

Binding: Paperback;528 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: APF; Weight: 504 g; Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 29

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