Description
Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay narratives written by John Buchan, first released in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is among the two Hannay narratives taking place in the First Great War, the other one is Mr Standfast in 1919. Hannay’s first and most famous quest, The Thirty-Nine Steps in 1915, took place in the time shortly before the battle begun. Hannay has come around to inspect the buzzes of a mutiny in the Muslim countries, and embarks on a death defying excursion through the opposing terrain to team up with his crony Sandy in Constantinople. While there, he and his cronies should obstruct the plots of Germany to apply spirituality to aid them conquest the warfare, intensifying at the Erzurum battle. John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC was a Scottish writer, historian and Unionist statesman who became the Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a short legal profession, John instantaneously started his aspiration in literature and his political and diplomatic professions, becoming a private secretary to the colonial administrator of innumerable outposts in southern Africa. He gradually drafted publicity for the British battle struggle in World War I. John was in 1927 voted Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities, but he spent a lot of his life on his literary profession, outstandingly inscribing The Thirty-Nine Steps and other exciting stories. In 1935, he was designated Governor General of Canada by King George V, on the advice of Prime Minister of Canada R. B. Bennett, to supersede the Earl of Bessborough. He filled in the position until he died in 1940. John ascertained to be eager of prose, along with the growth of Canadian tradition, and he had a state funeral in Canada before his ashes were sent to the United Kingdom.
Product ID: 9781776727711
Sku: TA-Q23F-HRBP
