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The Resource Beyond the thirty-nine steps : a life of John Buchan, Ursula Buchan

Beyond the thirty-nine steps : a life of John Buchan, Ursula Buchan

Label
Beyond the thirty-nine steps : a life of John Buchan
Title
Beyond the thirty-nine steps
Title remainder
a life of John Buchan
Statement of responsibility
Ursula Buchan
Title variation
  • Beyond the 39 steps
  • Life of John Buchan
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
John Buchan's name is known across the world for The Thirty-Nine Steps. In the past one hundred years the classic thriller has never been out of print and has inspired numerous adaptations for film, television, radio and stage, beginning with the celebrated version by Alfred Hitchcock. Yet there was vastly more to 'JB'. He wrote more than a hundred books - fiction and non-fiction - and a thousand articles for newspapers and magazines. He was a scholar, antiquarian, barrister, colonial administrator, journal editor, literary critic, publisher, war correspondent, director of wartime propaganda, member of parliament and imperial proconsul - given a state funeral when he died, a deeply admired and loved Governor-General of Canada. His teenage years in Glasgow's Gorbals, where his father was the Free Church minister, contributed to his ease with shepherds and ambassadors, fur-trappers and prime ministers. His improbable marriage to a member of the aristocratic Grosvenor family means that this account of his life contains, at its heart, an enduring love story. Ursula Buchan, his granddaughter, has drawn on recently discovered family documents to write this comprehensive and illuminating biography. With perception, style, wit and a penetratingly clear eye, she brings vividly to life this remarkable man and his times
Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
YDX
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Buchan, Ursula
Dewey number
823/.912
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Buchan, John
  • Novelists, Scottish
Target audience
adult
Label
Beyond the thirty-nine steps : a life of John Buchan, Ursula Buchan
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Control code
000065385708
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
492 pages. 24 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9781408870815
Lccn
be2019023985
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1045377641
Label
Beyond the thirty-nine steps : a life of John Buchan, Ursula Buchan
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Control code
000065385708
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
492 pages. 24 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9781408870815
Lccn
be2019023985
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1045377641

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