John Burnet of Barns
Published by Birlinn Limited
A young man must fight for his land and the woman he loves in 17th-century Scotland, in this historical novel by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps.
The turbulent “Killing Times” of the Covenanters is the backdrop to a desperate struggle between lifelong rivals . . .
John Burnet of Barns, the last of an ancient line of Border Reivers, returns home from abroad to find himself denounced as an agent of the Covenanters. Outlawed and deprived of his inheritance by his ruthless cousin, Captain Gilbert Burnet, John must now fight just to survive . . .
John Buchan's first full-length work of fiction is a tale of adventure in the tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson.
The turbulent “Killing Times” of the Covenanters is the backdrop to a desperate struggle between lifelong rivals . . .
John Burnet of Barns, the last of an ancient line of Border Reivers, returns home from abroad to find himself denounced as an agent of the Covenanters. Outlawed and deprived of his inheritance by his ruthless cousin, Captain Gilbert Burnet, John must now fight just to survive . . .
John Buchan's first full-length work of fiction is a tale of adventure in the tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson.
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