Although this book was listed in a collection of Richard Hannay stories, Hannay makes only a brief appearance at the beginning. Begins in the pleasant atmosphere of a country house in the Scottish borders, where Richard Hannay is the guest of his old friend, Sandy Arbuthnot. The action is set in Olifa, a fictional country on the west coast of South America. When Sandy Arbuthnot’s friend John Blenkiron discover that a charismatic industrial tycoon is plotting to rule the wor...

Vernon Milbourne, orphaned since childhood and haunted by a recurring dream, is friends with the protective lawyer and MP Sir Edward Leithen. An Aegean cruise takes them to the mysterious island of Plakos, where Vernon is fascinated by the island’s myths. Local superstitions turn to menace as Vernon’s encounter with a beautiful woman results in obsession and adventure. „The Dancing Floor” centres on a young English woman, Kore Arabin, who inherits a house on a remote Greek ...

Set during the Napoleonic Wars, „The Free Fishers” is classic Buchan and his last historical novel. It’s a fast-paced tale of treason, espionage and romance. Anthony Lammas, a professor at the St. Andrews University, finds himself involved in a web of intrigue that threatens the whole country. A conspiracy to betray England’s defences to Napoleonic agents is discovered by Lammas, a young professor who sets out to save his former students appearing to be in grave danger. You...

When Sir Edward Leithen leaves London to spend Whitsuntide as a guest at Flambard, he has no idea of the extraordinary sequence of events about to unfold. Among the collection of fellow guests, some of whom he knows and some he doesn’t, is the extraordinary mind of Professor Moe, a scientist who decides to select some of the houseguests as subjects for his latest experiment. He declares that he can make sure they can see into the future, and the people he chooses – for vari...

In John Buchan’s thrill-a-minute novel „Salute to Adventurers”, hero Andrew Garvald makes his way from the dreary moors of his native land to the deceptively bucolic landscape of early colonial America. A novel set during the beginning of the Jamestown Colony, „Salute To Adventurers” is an enthralling saga about one man’s struggle to survive and even find love in a land beset by trade controls with England enforced by pirates, religious strife manifested through a fanatic w...

Set in the closing years of the nineteenth century, „The Half-Hearted” tells the story of Lewis Haystoun, a dilettante and coward. Part I of the novel is a story of manners and romance in upper class Scotland. Part II is an adventure story on the North West frontier of India where Lewis saves the British Empire. The novel follows the life of Lewis Haystoun, a young Scottish laird, who finds himself unable to commit wholeheartedly to any course of action. His failure to seiz...

Regarded as one of the finest historical novels ever written, Jacobites, spies and thrilling intrigue are brought together by the master of suspense. As Bonnie Prince Charlie marches his army into England, his confidant Alastair Maclean is despatched on a secret mission. He is befriended by two extraordinary men – Dr. Samuel Johnson, an aspiring man of letters, and the shadowy figure known only as „Midwinter.” As he travels to rally the west of England to the Prince’s cause...

World War I espionage thriller meets modern-day morality tale in „Mr. Standfast”, the third of five Richard Hannay novels written by acclaimed storyteller John Buchan. In this nail-biting adventure story, Hannay must outwit a foe far more intelligent than himself; muster the courage to propose to the lovely, clever Mary Lamington; and survive a brutal war. Set, like „Greenmantle”, durinig World War I, it deals Brigadier-General Hannay’s recall from the Western Front, to eng...

Written in 1925, the novel opens with three gentleman friends – lawyer Sir Edward Leithen, banker John Palliser-Yeates, and Cabinet member Charles Lord Lamancha – discovering that they all suffer a common and debilitating malady, a loss of zest for life, all desperate to relieve the ennui that has engulfed them. The solution can only be something devilish, with a dash of daring. Enlisting the aid of another friend, Scottish landowner Sir Archibald Roylance, the trio contriv...

A true adventure story involving the unlikely hero Dickson McCunn, retired successful businessman and former greengrocer who sets out on a walking holiday in the Scottish Borders. There he meets a young English poet, and both soon become embroiled in the plot of an international gang to capture a Russian princess. With the help of the Gorbals Die-hards, an indomitable gang of urchins from Glasgow, they frustrate and finally defeat the gang. And in the process Dickson happen...

„John Burnet of Barns” was Buchan’s first fully realised, full-length work of fiction. The author’s third novel is story of adventure, treachery and revenge, set in the Scottish Borders in the 17th century, telling of a young nobleman who sets out to gain an education abroad, only to find himself betrayed in his absence by his cousin. Not just a romance, but adventures of a Scottish gentleman around the Netherlands and the wildest highlands of Scotland to find himself, rega...

„Castle Gay” is the second of Buchan’s three Dickson McCunn books and is set in south west Scotland in the Dumfries and Galloway region in the 1920s. The plot revolves around the self-discovery of a media mogul named Craw, who is firstly the subject of mistaken identity and then the target of Balkan extremists who wish to use his newspapers to influence their political cause. Mr. Craw’s journey is overseen by Jaikie Galt, one of the young scamps in „Huntingtower”, who is no...

John Buchan was a Scottish author and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. He wrote a series of books that follow the adventures of Richard Hannay, an expatriate Scot who was first introduced in the classic novel The Thirty-Nine Steps. Set in Scotland in 1745, during the Jacobite Rebellion, this dark story of loyalty and betrayal on the road to Culloden Moor recounts the adventures of Francis Birkenshaw. The Jacobite cause means nothing to him until...

A classic John Buchan story of espionage during World War I. It contains several familiar Buchan elements: a motley cast of characters, Great War intrigue, the use of disguises and linguistic talents, the concept of gaining inner strength from a beloved spot in nature, man against the forces of nature in less benign settings, a race against time and evil, and sacrifice for a greater good. This is the epic story of one man’s courage. Adam Melfort released from jail just befo...

John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian and also served as Canada’s Governor General. His 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and biographies. But, the most famous of his books were the adventure and spy thrillers, most notably „The Thirty-Nine Steps”, and it is for these that he is now best remembered. „A Lodge in the Wilderness” (1906) is a quasi-novel about an imaginary conference arranged by a multi-millionair...

Acht bis an die Zähne bewaffnete Männer von Scotland Yard bewachen einen Transport von 73000 Pfund Sterling. Aber der Geldtransporter mit Geld und seine Bewacher verschwindet auf der Straße von London nach Tilbury. Nach dem mysteriösen Verschwinden fehlt jede Spur. As wirklich geschehen?

Pierwsza taka książka, w której autor wnikliwie przygląda się kwestii współczesnego piractwa i wsłuchuje się w głosy wszystkich stron krwawego konfliktu Po raz pierwszy w historii marynarki wojenne wszystkich światowych supermocarstw zjednoczyły się w walce przeciwko wspólnemu wrogowi – kilku tysiącom niedożywionych, zabiedzonych mężczyzn i chłopców. Ludzie ci ściśnięci w malutkich, otwartych łodziach oddalają się od rodzinnych brzegów na odległość nawet półtora tysiąca kilom...

Już około roku 1500 myśl kalwińska antycypowała idee, jakie miało wyartykułować później europejskie Oświecenie. Te idee rodziły się w warunkach kryzysu: ale to właśnie kryzys, konkretne wyzwania społeczne i rewolucje (a nie abstrakcyjne teorie) wyznaczają charakter nowoczesności. Po 1500 roku ewolucji podlegała także myśl Jana Kalwina, głównego bohatera książki Johna Witte’a. Dzieła Reformacji dokonały dalsze procesy i zjawiska o mniej lub bardziej globalnej ...

Ruth Cole, opuszczona w wieku czterech lat przez matkę, robi zawrotną karierę literacką. Jej sukcesy zawodowe nie idą jednak w parze ze szczęściem osobistym. Kolejne nieudane związki potęgują tylko uczucie goryczy i samotności, towarzyszące wziętej autorce od wczesnego dzieciństwa. Wybawienie może przynieść tylko książę z bajki, zdolny zatriumfować nad przeszłością... Powieść Irvinga to przede wszystkim pełna śmiałej erotyki i brawurowego komizmu historia miłosna, po raz pi...

Drugi tom cyklu „Zwiadowcy: Wczesne lata”.Pozbawiony tytułu barona Morgarath uciekł z Zamku Gorlan, by uniknąć kary za zdradę stanu. W Araluenie zapanował względny pokój. Jednakże ukrywający się Czarny Lord planuje już swój kolejny ruch i gromadzi armię złożoną z tajemniczych bestii, zwanych wargalami. Duncan, który niedawno zasiadł na królewskim tronie, musi się szykować na wojnę, lecz nie zna dokładnie siły przeciwnika. Halt podejmuje się trudnej misji. Zamierza wspiąć się ...

Ludojady z Tsavo to nie tylko jedna z najlepszych historii o ludojadach - to przede wszystkim reportaż naocznego świadka wyczynów dwóch ludożerczych lwów terroryzujących wschodnią Afrykę przez blisko rok. W tym czasie udało im się niemal całkowicie zatrzymać budowę jednej z linii kolejowych i uśmiercić ponad sto osób.Relacja podpułkownika Johna Henry'ego Patersona, inżyniera kierującego pracami konstrukcyjnymi, znakomicie oddaje atmosferę paraliżującego strachu, zabobon...

Trójka gimnazjalistów zafascynowanych kryminałami zostaje wplątana w niebezpieczną grę, w której stawką jest życie mieszkańców ich miasta. Tajemniczy nieznajomy dostarcza im skrzyneczkę z dziwnymi przedmiotami, które na pierwszy rzut oka nie mają z niczym związku. Tymczasem są to niezwykle cenne wskazówki...

London, May 1914. Europe is close to the First World War. Richard Hannay, a Scotsman raised in Rhodesia is living in London, and finds American Franklin Scudder at his door. Scudder is a photographer and free-lance spy and has information about a plot by the German spy ring, the Black Stone, to steal the British plans for war. Hannay later finds Scudder dead in his flat and decides he must carry on Scudder’s work. With both German spies and the police after, Hannay must solv...

Słownik pojęć Whiteheada to pierwsze na świecie tak przystępnie napisane wprowadzenie do filozofii procesu - wielkiego projektu intelektualnego Alfreda Northa Whiteheada, wybitnego XX-wiecznego matematyka i myśliciela. Od czasu opublikowania jego najważniejszego dzieła,  Proces i rzeczywistość (1929), filozofia Whiteheada jest powszechnie uważana za jeden z bardziej fascynujących, ale jednocześnie trudnych do intuicyjnego uchwycenia, systemów filozoficznych XX wieku. John C...