The heir of a small Tweeddale estate grows up loving his cousin Marjory and quarrelling with his kinsman Gilbert, then is swept from his books into the troubled Scotland of the later Stuarts. Narrated by John himself, the novel moves from Peeblesshire woods to Holland and back through the hill country where Covenanters were hunted.
An early Buchan novel, written while he was still at Oxford, already alive with the Border landscape he loved. Download the free EPUB.