moors

In the mid-sixteenth century, Jean de Rohaine, a middle-aged French nobleman, journeys to Scotland in search of adventure and a new beginning. In Scotland he meets up with his old friend, Quentin Kennedy, who informs him of a great battle to be waged. Having witnessed Royalist troops butchering suspected Covenanters, he follows the example of ‘godly’ refugees and escapes to the safety of the hills...

Mary Lennox po stracie rodziców przyjeżdża do wielkiego domu swojego wuja na Yorkshire Moors. Posiadłość ma prawie sto pokoi, a jej wuj okazuje się nieobecnym człowiekiem, który siedzi w zamknięciu. Pozostawiona sama sobie szybko odkrywa, że ​​jest dom pełen tajemnic. W nocy słyszy czyjś płacz w jednym z długich korytarzy. Wkrótce odkrywa również tajemniczy ogród, otoczony murami i zamknięty na klucz....

One of the founders of the genre of „espionage” novel, but also an employee of British intelligence, and later a prominent political figure, whose career ended as Governor General of Canada. His first novel, Thirty-nine Steps, was a resounding success, published in 1915, in the midst of World War I. It first appears the charming image of Richard Hanney – a hero who later wandered through the pages...

In John Buchan’s thrill-a-minute novel „Salute to Adventurers”, hero Andrew Garvald makes his way from the dreary moors of his native land to the deceptively bucolic landscape of early colonial America. A novel set during the beginning of the Jamestown Colony, „Salute To Adventurers” is an enthralling saga about one man’s struggle to survive and even find love in a land beset by trade controls with...