Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps, Buchan Ursula

Автор: Buchan Ursula
Название: Green and Pleasant Land
ISBN: 0099558661 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099558668
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Gardening in wartime Britain was a part of the fight for freedom. This book tells the story of how Britain`s wartime government encouraged and cajoled its citizens to grow their own fruit and vegetables.

Автор: Buchan Ursula
Название: Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan
ISBN: 1408870819 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408870815
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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John Buchan's name is known across the world for The Thirty-Nine 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 non-fiction and about 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 Governor-General of Canada.

His teenage years in Glasgow's Gorbals, where his father was the Free Church minister, contributed to his ease with shepherds and ambassadors, fur-trappers 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.