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    Sick Heart River

    By John Buchan

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    Sir Edward Leithen - perhaps the autobiographical of Buchan's characters - is dying of tuberculosis and has been given a year to live. After this prognosis, Leithen undertakes a profoundly heroic quest from London to the Canadian Northwest, tracking down a missing man who is literally 'sick at heart'. In the course of this epic journey, Leithen finds redemption for himself.

    Sick Heart River is John Buchan's most powerful novel, completed just days before his death. The rich, authentic descriptions of the rugged Canadian landscape were influenced by a voyage down the Mackenzie River in 1937, at which time Buchan was Governor-General of Canda.

    With an introduction by James Buchan.

    This edition is authorised by the John Buchan Society.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPolygon
    Release dateAug 12, 2011
    ISBN9780857901651
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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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      Edward 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.