![]() ![]() After the war he became a director of the news agency Reuters. In 1915, Buchan became a war correspondent for The Times, and published his most well-known book, the thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps. In the years leading up to World War I, he worked at a publishers, and also wrote Prester John (1910) – which later became a school reader, translated into many languages – as well as a number of biographies. In 1900, Buchan moved to London, and two years later accepted a civil service post in South Africa. His first work, The Essays and Apothegms of Francis Lord Bacon, was published in 1894, and a year later he enrolled at Oxford University to study law. ![]() Buchan’s education was uneven, but at the age of seventeen he obtained a scholarship to study classics at Glasgow University, where he began to write poetry. In his youth, his father immersed him in the history, legends and myths of Scotland, and he was an avid reader, stating some years later that John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress was a constant companion to him. John Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield, was born in Perth, Scotland in 1875. ![]() The express permission of the publisher in writingīritish Library Cataloguing-in-Publication DataĪ catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ![]()
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