The African Colony

The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction (1903) is a history of South Africa told from John Buchan's personal viewpoint: "I have tried in the main to state as clearly as I could the outstanding problems of South African politics as they appear to one observer. I have tried to write what is a kind of guide-book, not to details, but to the constituents of that national life which is now in process of growth. The first part consists of brief historical sketches, dealing with the genesis of the three populations--native, uitlander, and Boer. The second part (deals with) the configuration of the land. The third part (is) a sketch of the political problem as it has to be faced in South Africa to-day." According to Wikipedia, "John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan's 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and biographies of Sir Walter Scott, Caesar Augustus, and Oliver Cromwell. Buchan's most famous of his books were the spy thrillers (including) The 39 Steps (which was converted to a play as well as an Alfred Hitchcock movie starring Robert Donat as Richard Hannay, though with Buchan's story much altered.) The "last Buchan" (as Graham Greene entitled his appreciative review) was the 1941 novel Sick Heart River (American title: Mountain Meadow), in which a dying protagonist confronts in the Canadian wilderness the questions of the meaning of life. The insightful quotation "It's a great life, if you don't weaken" is famously attributed to Buchan, as is "No great cause is ever lost or won, The battle must always be renewed, And the creed must always be restated."


  1. Tales of Scottish Highlands & Moors – 70+ Historical Novels, Adventure Classics & Victorian Romances : Kidnapped, Waverley, Ivanhoe, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Midwinter, Penny Plain, Robert Falconer

    Walter Scott, John Buchan, Robert Louis Stevenson, George MacDonald, J.M. Barrie

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  2. 50 Halloween Stories you have to read before you die (Golden Deer Classics)

    H.P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Arthur Machen, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Thomas Hardy, Golden Deer Classics, Jason Conrad, William Hope Hodgson, John Buchan

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  3. HALLOWEEN Ultimate Collection: 200+ Mysteries, Horror Classics & Supernatural Tales : Sweeney Todd, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Haunted Hotel, The Mummy's Foot, The Dunwich Horror, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Frankenstein, The Vampire, Dracula, The Turn of the Screw, The Horla…

    Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, M.P. Shiel, Ralph Adams Cram, John William Polidori, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Guy De Maupassant, M. R. James, Wilkie Collins, E F Benson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, William Hope Hodgson, Pedro De Alarçon, Walter Hubbell, Washington Irving, Francis Marion Crawford, James Malcolm Rymer, Thomas Peckett Prest, W. W. Jacobs, Wilhelm Hauff, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Daniel Defoe, Jack London, George MacDonald, Mark Twain, Pliny the Younger, Margaret Oliphant, Helena Blavatsky, Fergus Hume, Florence Marryat, Villiers l'Isle de Adam, William Archer, William F. Harvey, Katherine Rickford, Leopold Kompert, Vincent O'Sullivan, Ellis Parker Butler, A. T. Quiller-Couch, Fiona Macleod, Lafcadio Hearn, William T. Stead, Gambier Bolton, Andrew Jackson Davis, Nizida, Walter F. Prince, Chester Bailey Fernando, Brander Matthews, Leonard Kip, Frank R. Stockton, Bithia Mary Croker, Catherine L. Pirkis, Anatole France, Richard Le Gallienne, Henry James, John Buchan

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  4. Beware The Silence: 560+ Horror Classics, Macabre Tales & Supernatural Mysteries : The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Haunted House, Dead Souls, The Turn of the Screw, The Ghost Pirates, The Tell-Tale Heart, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, The Great God Pan…

    Théophile Gautier, Richard Marsh, H.P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Hugh Walpole, M. R. James, Wilkie Collins, E F Benson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, William Hope Hodgson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Joseph Sheridan Fanu, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Guy De Maupassant, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mark Twain, Daniel Defoe, Jerome K Jerome, Fitz-James O’Brien, Catherine Crowe, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Pedro De Alarçon, Amelia B. Edwards, Washington Irving, John Meade Falkner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary E. Freeman, Louisa M. Alcott, Edith Nesbit, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Francis Marion Crawford, John Kendrick Bangs, John Buchan, Sabine Baring-Gould, Cleveland Moffett, Louis Tracy, Nikolai Gogol, James Malcolm Rymer, Thomas Peckett Prest, Frederick Marryat, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, W. W. Jacobs, H. H. (Saki), Wilhelm Hauff, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Robert W. Chambers, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas De Quincey, William Makepeace Thackeray, E. T. Hoffmann, Robert E. Howard, David Lindsay, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Edward Bellamy, Jack London, Pliny the Younger, Helena Blavatsky, Fergus Hume, Florence Marryat, Villiers l'Isle de Adam, William Archer, William F. Harvey, Katherine Rickford, Ralph Adams Cram, Leopold Kompert, Brander Matthews, Vincent O'Sullivan, Ellis Parker Butler, A. T. Quiller-Couch, Fiona Macleod, Lafcadio Hearn, William T. Stead, Gambier Bolton, Andrew Jackson Davis, Nizida, Walter F. Prince, Chester Bailey Fernando, Leonard Kip, Frank R. Stockton, Bithia Mary Croker, Catherine L. Pirkis, Leonid Andreyev, Anatole France, Richard Le Gallienne, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Horace Walpole, William Thomas Beckford, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, John William Polidori, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Walter Hubbell, George W. Reynolds, M.P. Shiel, Adelbert von Chamisso

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  5. The Complete Richard Hannay Adventures : eBook Bundle

    John Buchan

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  6. 30 Suspense and Thriller Masterpieces you have to read in your life

    Marcel Allain, Grant Allen, John Buchan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Erskine Childers, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Griffiths, Henry Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Hope, William Andrew Johnston, Frederic Arnold Kummer, William Le Queux, Frank Norris, Edward Phillips Oppenheim, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Allen Upward, Louis Joseph Vance, Edgar Wallace, Fred Merrick White

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  7. The Thirty-Nine Steps

    John Buchan

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  8. Los 39 escalones : Intriga y espías en un thriller político

    John Buchan

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  9. 30 Suspense and Thriller Masterpieces : A Classic Collection of Suspense & Danger

    Marcel Allain, Grant Allen, John Buchan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, G.K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Zenith Horizon Publishing

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  10. The Book of Shadows Vol II : Supernatural Horror & Occult Fiction – A Chilling Anthology of Witchcraft, Curses, and Dark Forces

    Bram Stoker, Robert W. Chambers, H.G. Wells, W. W. Jacobs, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Arthur Machen, Mary Webb, John Buchan, W. F. Harvey, Hugh Walpole

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  11. The Thirty-Nine Steps

    John Buchan

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  12. 30 Suspense and Thriller Masterpieces

    Marcel Allain, Grant Allen, John Buchan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, G.K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Zenith Evergreen Literary Co

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