Sick Heart River [Mountain Meadow] (Sir Edward Leithen #5)
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| Title: | Sick Heart River [Mountain Meadow] (Sir Edward Leithen #5) | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1944 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Musson Book Company Ltd. | ||||||||||
| Tags: | adventure, England, fiction | ||||||||||
| Description: | Buchan's last novel, published posthumously. Buchan's rich descriptions of the rugged Canadian Northwest Territories are influenced by his real-life voyage down the Mackenzie River in 1937. At that time, Buchan was Governor-General of Canada. The main character, the lawyer and politician Sir Edward Leithen—perhaps the most autobiographical of Buchan's characters—has been diagnosed with advanced tuberculosis and has been given a year to live. A former colleague, American John S. Blenkiron, requests help to find his niece's husband, who appears to have flown from his very successful financial career to the Canadian north. Leithen agrees to help. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 869 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 118  |
Author Bio for Buchan, John
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.
In 1910, Buchan wrote Prester John, the first of his adventure novels set in South Africa, and the following year he suffered from duodenal ulcers, a condition that later afflicted one of his fictional characters. At the same time, Buchan ventured into the political arena, and was adopted as Unionist candidate in March 1911 for the Borders seat of Peebles and Selkirk; he supported free trade, women's suffrage, national insurance, and curtailing the powers of the House of Lords, though he did also oppose the welfare reforms of the Liberal Party, and what he considered to be the "class hatred" fostered by demagogic Liberals such as David Lloyd George. ...
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