Sick Heart River: John Buchan

[poliphilo]

Sir Edward Leithen- suffering from incurable TB and hoping to die on his feet- undertakes a search for a missing man in the Canadian Arctic.  This- though I don't think he knew it- was to be Buchan's final novel. Sombre, philosophical and rather beautiful, it makes a fitting last testament.

Comments

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've read this one - and Arctic Buchan sounds irresistible.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It has huskies in it. And planes.

Buchan is very good on landscape. He makes you see and feel "The North".

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

And it's 49p for Kindle. Boom.