John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.
After a brief legal career, Buchan simultaneously began his writing career and his political and diplomatic careers, serving as a private secretary to the administrator of various colonies in southern Africa. He eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort during World War I. He was elected Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities in 1927, but he spent most of his time on his writing career, notably writing The Thirty-Nine Steps and other adventure fiction.
The John Buchan Collection features:
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Greenmantle
Mr. Standfast
Huntingtower
The Power-House
The Half-Hearted
John Burnet Of Barns: A Romance
A Lodge In The Wilderness
A Lost Lady Of Old Years
The Path Of The King
Prester John
Salute To Adventurers
Sir Quixote Of The Moors
Grey Weather
Prester John
At The Article Of Death
Politics And The May-Fly
A Reputation
A Journey Of Little Profit
At The Rising Of The Waters
The Earlier Affection
The Black Fishers
Summer Weather
The Oasis In The Snow
The Herd Of Standlan
Streams Of Water In The South
The Moor-Song
Comedy In The Full Moon
The Moon Endureth: Tales And Fantasies
The Watcher By The Threshold
The Far Islands
A Book Of Escape And Hurried Journeys
and
Scholar Gispies
