John Buchan

The Thirty-nine Steps (Annotated) John Buchan

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan. The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment. John Buchan, First Baron of Tweedsmuir (1875 - 1940) was a Scottish novelist and politician in the Scottish Unionist Party who served as Governor-General of Canada. Buchan was the oldest son in a family of four and a surviving daughter (novelist Anna Buchan) born to a pastor of the Free Church of Scotland, John Buchan (1847-1911), and his wife Helen Jane (1857-1937), daughter of John Masterton, farmer, from Broughton Green, near Peebles. Born in Perth and growing up in Fife, he spends numerous summer vacations with his grandparents in the Borders, developing the love for hiking and the Borders landscape and wildlife that is often portrayed in his novels. An example is Sir Edward Leithen, the hero of some of Buchan's books, which owes its name to Leithen Water, a tributary of the River Tweed.