Huntingtower

by John Buchan

Overview

When Dickson McCunn decides to leave behind his grocery store in Glasgow and embark on a peaceful walking holiday in the Scottish borders, excitement and adventure are not things that he expects to stumble upon, yet stumble upon them he does. A veritable rip-roaring adventure story, Huntington Tower is a text that will appeal to those with a love of exciting and nail-biting adventure, and makes for a wonderful addition to any personal collection. John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875 – 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since the Canadian Confederation. Many antiquarian books such as this are becoming increasingly hard-to-come-by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781443733557
Publisher:	Pomona Press
Publication date:	11/04/2008
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

One of Alfred Hitchcock’s favourite writers, John Buchan was a Scottish diplomat, barrister, journalist, historian, poet and novelist. He published nearly 30 novels and seven collections of short stories. He was born in Perth, an eldest son, and studied at Glasgow and Oxford. In 1901 he became a barrister of the Middle Temple and a private secretary to the High Commissioner for South Africa. In 1907 he married Susan Charlotte Grosvenor and they subsequently had four children. After spells as a war correspondent, Lloyd George’s Director of Information and Conservative MP, Buchan moved to Canada in 1935. He served as Governor General there until his death in 1940.