BUCHAN, John.
Sick Heart River.
London: Hodder and Stoughton , 1950.
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John Buchan's Sick Heart River
Finely bound edition of John Buchan's final novel. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers. In fine condition.
John Buchan (1875–1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and public servant whose career combined literary achievement with imperial administration. During the First World War he served in British intelligence and later held political office, culminating in his appointment as Governor General of Canada (1935–1940). Sick Heart River (1941) is Buchan’s final novel and a reflective, elegiac work centered on Sir Edward Leithen, a distinguished lawyer who, after being diagnosed with a terminal illness, seeks purpose in the Canadian North. Abandoning his career in London, Leithen undertakes a mission to locate Francis Galliard, a missing financier who has vanished into the remote Arctic region known as “Sick Heart River.”
Sick Heart River.
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