|
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
|
John Buchan
|
|
(1875–1940, baron Tweedsmuir 1935) Scottish author and, in his later years, statesman (the climax of his public career was as governor general of Canada, 1935–40). He is best known for his adventure stories, jingoistic in tone but invariably exciting. The first was Prester John (1910). In The *Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) he introduced the secret agent, Richard Hannay, who with Sandy Arbuthnot and others reappeared in a succession of books starting with Greenmantle (1916).
|
|
|
|