Book description
 Buchan knew that you can't buck the consequences of your actions,
and that your life is what you make of it. Perhaps his peculiarly
Scottish combination of Romanticism and Calvinism Â- daring living and
high thinking Â- is due to return to fashion.' Â- The Independent
Magazine In 1925, John Buchan published his second most famous novel,
"John MacNab"; three high-flying men - a barrister, a
cabinet minister and a banker - are suffering from boredom. They
concoct a plan to cure it. They inform three Scottish estates that
they will poach from each two stags and a salmon in a given time. They
sign collectively as 'John McNab' and await the responses. This novel
is a light interlude within the "Leithen Stories" series -
an evocative look at the hunting, shooting and fishing lifestyle in
Highland Scotland. Introduction by Andrew Greig.
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.
