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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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      Sir Quixote of the Moors by John Buchan - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - John Buchan

      The Complete Works of

      JOHN BUCHAN

      VOLUME 1 OF 38

      Sir Quixote of the Moors

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2013

      Version 1

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘Sir Quixote of the Moors’

      John Buchan: Parts Edition (in 38 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78877 325 6

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: sales@delphiclassics.com

      www.delphiclassics.com

      John Buchan: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 1 of the Delphi Classics edition of John Buchan in 38 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Sir Quixote of the Moors from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of John Buchan, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of John Buchan or the Complete Works of John Buchan in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      JOHN BUCHAN

      IN 38 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Novels

      1, Sir Quixote of the Moors

      2, John Burnet of Barns

      3, A Lost Lady of Old Years

      4, The Half-Hearted

      5, A Lodge in the Wilderness

      6, Prester John

      7, The Power-House

      8, The Thirty-Nine Steps

      9, Salute to Adventurers

      10, Greenmantle

      11, Mr Standfast

      12, The Path of a King

      13, Huntingtower

      14, Midwinter

      15, The Three Hostages

      16, John Macnab

      17,  the Goddess from the Shades

      18, Witch Wood

      19, The Magic Walking-Stick

      20, The Courts of the Morning

      21, Castle Gay

      22, The Blanket of the Dark

      23,  the Gap in the Curtain

      24, A Prince of the Captivity

      25, The Free Fishers

      26, The House of the Four Winds

      27, The Island of Sheep

      28, Sick Heart River

      29, The Long Traverse

      The Short Stories

      30, The Complete Short Stories

      The Poetry

      31, The Complete Poems

      Selected Non-Fiction

      32, The African Colony

      33, A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys

      34, Lord Minto: A Memoir

      35, Montrose: A History

      36, Sir Walter Scott

      37, The King’s Grace

      The Autobiography

      38, Memory Hold-The-Door

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      Sir Quixote of the Moors

      BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF THE SIEUR DE ROHAINE.

      Buchan was brought up in Kirkcaldy, Fife, and enjoyed many summer holidays with his grandparents in Broughton, in the Scottish Borders, where he developed a fascination of Scottish history and tales of old heroes, much like how his great idol Sir Walter Scott had done a century before. The young Buchan also developed a love of the local scenery and wildlife, which often feature in detail throughout his novels.

      After attending Hutchesons’ Grammar School, Buchan was awarded a scholarship to the University of Glasgow, aged 17, where he studied classics, wrote poetry and became a published author. With a junior Hulme scholarship, he moved on in 1895 to study the Classics at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he befriended a number of literary individuals, including Hilaire Belloc, Raymond Asquith and Aubrey Herbert.

      Buchan’s first novel was written in the spring of 1895 when he was nineteen years old, whilst studying as an undergraduate in his third year at Glasgow. The novel was published by T. Fisher Unwin in October 1896 and purports to have been written in English by a seventeenth-century French nobleman and so the style is inevitably stilted and challenging to read. Nevertheless, the novel contains many notable features of Buchan’s later great novels, with compelling descriptions of place and weather, swift narrative pace and concepts of honour and duty destined to later become Buchanian conventions.

      Sir Quixote of the Moors is set in Galloway in Scotland in the late seventeenth century. From gambling and improvidence, the middle-aged Jean Sieur de Rohaine has become impoverished and has taken up an invitation to stay with Quentin Kennedy, an old friend of his youth. Kennedy invites him to join in the persecution of covenanters in the district, who have refused to accept government interference in their congregation. The persecution is so brutal that the two men fall out and Jean leaves indignantly. He and his horse, Saladin, ride off among the moors in bad weather and are soon lost. He finds an inn where the innkeeper is about to rob him when an unknown stranger helps him escape.

      The first edition

      CONTENTS

      PREFACE

      I. — ON THE HIGH MOORS

      II. — I FARE BADLY INDOORS

      III. — I FARE BADLY ABROAD

      IV. — OF MY COMING TO LINDEAN

      V. — I PLEDGE MY WORD

      VI. — IDLE DAYS

      VII. — A DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS

      VIII. — HOW I SET THE SIGNAL

      IX. — I COMMUNE WITH MYSELF

      X. — OF MY DEPARTURE

      The countryside at Broughton, Scottish Borders, which served to inspire Buchan’s interest in his country’s history and natural world, influencing many of his novels, including ‘Sir Quixote of the Moors’.

      TO GILBERT MURRAY —

      WHATSOEVER IN THIS BOOK IS NOT

      WORTHLESS IS DEDICATED

      BY HIS FRIEND.

      PREFACE

      The narrative, now for the first time presented to the world, was written by the Sieur de Rohaine to while away the time during the long period and painful captivity, borne with heroic resolution, which preceded his death. He chose the English tongue, in which he was extraordinarily proficient, for two reasons: first, as an exercise in the language; second, because he desired to keep the passages here recorded from the knowledge of certain of his kinsfolk in France. Few changes have been made in his work. Now and then an English idiom has been substituted for a French; certain tortuous expressions have been emended; and in general the portions in the Scots dialect have been rewritten, since the author’s knowledge of this manner of speech seems scarcely to have been so great as he himself thought.

      I. — ON THE HIGH MOORS

      Before me stretched a black heath, over which the mist blew in gusts, and through whose midst the road crept like an adder. Great storm-marked hills flanked me on either side, and since I set out I had seen their harsh outline against a thick sky, until I longed for flat ground to rest my sight upon. The way was damp, and the soft mountain gravel sank under my horse’s feet; and ever and anon my legs were splashed by the water from some pool which the rain had left. Shrill mountain birds flew around, and sent their cries through the cold air. Sometimes the fog would lift for a moment from the face of the land and show me a hilltop or the leaden glimmer of a loch, but nothing more — no green field or homestead; only a barren and accursed desert.

      Neither horse nor man was in any spirit. My back ached, and I shivered in my sodden garments, while my eyes were dim from gazing on flying clouds. The poor beast stumbled often, for he had traveled far on little fodder, and a hill-road was a new thing in his experience. Saladin I called him — for I had fancied that there was something Turkish about his black face, with the heavy turban-like band above his forehead — in my old fortunate days when I bought him.

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