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Aug 26, 1875 — Feb 11, 1940· 64 yrs

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John Buchan

Also known as: Fancies John Buchan, J. Buchan

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A Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation (Wikipedia).

Perth, United Kingdom
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I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life.

— from The Thirty-Nine Steps

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Prester John

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I mind as if it were yesterday my first sight of the man. Little I knew at the time how big the moment was with destiny, or how often that face seen in the fitful moonlight would haunt my sleep and disturb my waking hours. But I mind yet the cold grue of terror I got from it, a terror which was surely more than the due of a few truant lads breaking the Sabbath with their play.

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The Thirty-Nine Steps

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Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his pursuers.

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Sick Heart River

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Lawyer and MP Sir Edward Leithen is given a year to live. Fearing he will die unfulfilled, he devotes his last months to seeking out and restoring to health Galliard, a young Canadian banker. Galliard is in remotest Canada searching for the River of the Sick Heart. Braving a severe Arctic winter, Leithen finds Galliard and feels his own health returning. The North has healed both men, but only one will return to civilization.

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