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The fictional Sick Heart River is in the real region of the Nahanni River in Canada's Northwest Territories. The area was only just being mapped when Buchan, as Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir, passed nearby during his voyage down the Mackenzie River in the summer of 1937.
Sick Heart River. John Buchan, James Buchan (Introduction) 3.92. 352ratings48reviews. Kindle $9.99. Rate this book. Sir Edward Leithen - perhaps the autobiographical of Buchan's characters - is dying of tuberculosis and has been given a year to live.
Jan 2, 2024 · "Sick Heart River" finds Leithen now in his late fifties facing a terminal diagnosis of turberculosis. Leithen has enjoyed a dazzling career as eminent barrister, member of Parliament, Cabinet minister, and attorney-general but with only months left to live, he leaves it all behind and takes up a whole new mission into the bleak arctic wilds of ...
Sick Heart River is John Buchan's most powerful novel, completed just days before his death. The rich, authentic descriptions of the rugged Canadian landscape were...
Apr 24, 2015 · “Sick Heart River” is a powerful and compelling novel originally published in 1941. It is John Buchan's last novel which was completed days before his death in 1940. It follows a...
May 14, 2019 · Sick Heart River is John Buchan's most powerful novel and his last, completed days before his death. It was published posthumously in 1941. Buchan's rich descriptions of...
In Sick Heart River, Sir Edward Leithen's thoughts go back to his friends in England—Hannay, Clanroyden, Roylance, Palliser-Yeates, and Lord Lamancha. We know amazingly little about the fascinating Lord Lamancha.
