Pilgrim's Way, An Essay in Recollection

Lord Tweedsmuir

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin, 1940

Beschreibung

Condition of Hardback Book: Very Good. Condition of Dustjacket: Good Pages have slightly browned over the years. This is a very good copy. Nice b/w frontispiece portrait of John Buchan as "Lord Tweedsmuir" by Yousuf Karsh. John Buchan was Governor-General of Canada from 1935 until his death in 1940. His most noted literary work was "The Thirty-Nine Steps," made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock. He finished this unique autobiography only a week before his death. 336pp In 1935 in what was described by Times as a "master stroke of Empire tact", John Buchan, border Scot, member of Parliament, top-flight author of biography and stories of romantic adventure, was appointed Governor General of Canada and given the title of Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield. In the five years that followed, as symbol and vice-regal of the Throne, he worked as no predecessor ever had, covering practically the entire Dominion by train, boat and airplane, speaking in thousands of placed from cities to frontier posts, devoting himself so thoroughly to Canada and its people that at his untimely death in February there was an unparalleled sense of personal loss north of the border, and, south of it, a widespread feelin that a vital figure had disappearewd from the continent. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 978

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Pilgrim's Way, An Essay in Recollection

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin

Erscheinungsdatum: 1940

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good

Auflage: 1st Edition