Sick Heart River
By John Buchan
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Sir Edward Leithen is in London when he is diagnosed with tuberculosis and told that he has a year to live. Initially unsure of how to live out his remaining days, Leithen is unexpectedly given an opportunity to help search for a missing man in the Canadian north. Accepting the task, Leithen embarks on a physical and spiritual journey that helps him come to terms with his life, death, and legacy.
John Buchan is most widely known for his adventure novels, such as those featuring the spy Richard Hannay. The spiritually poignant Sick Heart River is a departure from Buchan’s usual themes, even more so because it was the last book he wrote, and was published posthumously after his accidental death in 1940. The main character, Edward Leithan, had appeared in several other, more lighthearted books of Buchan’s, including The Power-House and John Macnab.
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John Buchan
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. Hew Strachan is Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford; his research interests include military history from the 18th century to date, including contemporary strategic studies, but with particular interest in the First World War and in the history of the British Army.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Edward Leithen, a lawyer/statesman close to possibly becoming prime minster, finds he is dying of a form of t due to have been gassed in World War One. He is actually younger than I now,but i very much identify with his sense of weakness and weariness. He is persuaded to go to Canada in search of a promising French Canadian who had made a success of business in New York, married a woman there and then suddenly vanished baxk into the Canadian wilderness. Leithen expects the search will use up his last energy, but in act he finds that it strengthens him. (Spoiler warning) --however, after finding him and recovering much of his heath, he deliberately chooses to spend all his renewed strength saving a tribe of First people who have despaired of life themselves and are dying off.