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  • The Field

    To the hill once again

    Aug 19, 2021 3 minutes

    hen John Buchan wrote in 1925 (his second most popular novel after ), the three protagonists – Sir Edward Leithen, John Palliser-Yeates and Lord Lamancha – were stricken with ennui. As they slump disconsolately in their London Club an idea takes shape. Something with just enough dash and derring-do. An adventure to raise the spirits and drag them from the doldrums. The plot is laid. A letter will be written to three Highlands estates purporting to be from one ‘John Macnab’, who makes

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