THE ISLAND OF SHEEP.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1936]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover. Octavo, original green cloth stamped in gilt. 318 pp. Light foxing and dusting to edges of text block, a Very Good clean copy in the original colour pictorial dust jacket which shows fraying along the edges, has several short closed tears with a bit of moderate loss, and minor dust-soiling to white paper stock. John Buchan, as Lord Tweedsmuir, was Governor General of Canada from 1935 until his death in 1940. Very Good. Item #313618
¶ The last of Buchan's novels to focus on his characters Richard Hannay (THE 39 STEPS) and Sandy Arbuthnot (GREENMANTLE). The action occurs twelve years later on from the last novel, when Hannay, now in his fifties, is called by an old oath to protect the son of a man he once knew, who is also heir to the secret of a great treasure. He obtains help from Sandy Arbuthnot, now Lord Clanroyden, and Lombard. The action takes place in England, in Scotland and on the Island of Sheep, which is in what Buchan calls the Norlands: clearly the Faroe Islands.
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