Greenmantle

by John Buchan, Charles Pickard Ware

Overview

Greenmantle' is John Buchan's second novel featuring the character of Richard Hannay and was first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. Greenmantle is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, 'Mr Standfast' (1919) being the other. Hannay's most famous adventure, 'The Thirty-Nine Steps' (1915), is set just after the war. The chapters of this book include: 'A Mission is Proposed', 'The Gathering of the Missionaries', 'Peter Pienaar', 'Adventures of Two Dutchmen on the Loose', 'Further Adventures of the Same', 'The Indiscretions of the Same', 'Christmastide', 'The Essen Barges', et cetera. We are republishing this vintage book now complete with a new biography of the author.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781443734264
Publisher:	Hesperides Press
Publication date:	11/04/2008
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir, was a Scottish diplomat, barrister, journalist, historian, poet and novelist. He wrote adventure novels, short-story collections and biographies. His passion for the Scottish countryside is reflected in much of his writing. Buchan's adventure stories are high in romance and are peopled by a large cast of characters. 'Richard Hannay', 'Dickson McCunn' and 'Sir Edward Leithen' are three that reappear several times. Alfred Hitchcock adapted his most famous book 'The Thirty-Nine Steps', featuring Hannay, for the big screen. Born in 1875 in Perth, Buchan was the son of a minister. Childhood holidays were spent in the Borders, for which he had a great love. He was educated at Glasgow University and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was President of the Union. Called to the Bar in 1901, he became Lord Milner's assistant private secretary in South Africa. By 1907, however, he was working as a publisher with Nelson's. During the First World War Buchan was a correspondent at the Front for 'The Times', as well as being an officer in the Intelligence Corps and advisor to the War Cabinet. Elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament for one of the Scottish Universities' seats in 1927, he was created Baron Tweedsmuir in 1935. From then, until his death in 1940, he served as Governor General of Canada, during which time he nevertheless managed to continue writing.

Editorial Reviews

It's a special sort of book that can fire your imagination and transport you to worlds you've never known, but Greenmantle continues to take me on a trip, every time I read it'

Kevin Sampson