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The Return of John MacNab was the second novel by Scottish writer Andrew Greig. The novel was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Award.
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By taking part in this package you can expect to learn the basic principles of stalking a deer with the extra security of always being under strict guidance. You will be shown the best fly fishing techniques, depending on the location and conditions as well as being shown how to set up the rod and casting if it is required.
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The best time to take part in this experience is in September and up to 20th October when the salmon season ends on the River Mourne. Their four cottages are in a breath taking rural location and are surrounded by natural beauty with views of the Donegal hills. There is a range of eating establishments nearby. Toggle navigation. Home Packages Contact. This is exceptional storytelling. Now, that, right there, is everything you need to know about the characters, about the sort of book you are reading and, very possibly, based on your reaction to that announcement, the sort of person you are.
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Who has the sort of lifestyle where they have to make a conscious decision to stop drinking champagne for a few days, in order to really enjoy it at a celebration? Formula One drivers, maybe. The protagonists are not the only memorable characters in the novel, the cast of characters roughly dividing between toffs and serfs.
The toffs consist of our three faux poachers of course, but there is also the landowners they have threatened to poach from, who show themselves in their responses to the warning to be either the sort of chap chapesses do feature also who recognise and relish a sporting challenge, or the sort of person who does not understand a gentlemanly challenge, or the countryside. That is; a right bastard. The serfs are the various servants, who are loyal and dour in equal measure and, no doubt, have their own opinions about the whole enterprise, but are more than willing to assist their masters in getting one over on the owners or tenants of nearby estates.
Although well stocked with characters as colourful as neon tartan, all take second place to the landscape as character. The Scottish Highlands, we read, are glorious, one almost wants to grab a rod, reel and bloody big gun and take to the hills. The one thing to be said for a landscape more rugged than an over-compensating secretly homosexual matinee idol is that it presents plenty of places to hide in tweed with a bloody big gun, waiting for a stag. Your enjoyment of this book may well depend upon your enjoyment of blood sports, because you cannot even comfort yourself that this is entirely fiction, the book having given rise to the Macnab Challenge, bagging a stag, a salmon and a brace of grouse between dawn and dusk.
Putting aside the magnificence of the novel, what other book has inspired such a sporting event? The protagonists are obviously in need of a good war for distraction and excitement, and the conclusion of the novel is as humbling as it is satisfying. I do not know what kind of rascal you may be, except that you have the morals of a bandit and the assurance of a halfpenny journalist. But since you seem in your perverted way to be a sportsman, I am not the man to refuse your challenge. My reply is, sir, damn your eyes and have a try.
I defy you to kill a stag in my forest between midnight on the 28th of August and midnight of the 30th. I will give instructions to my men to guard my marches, and if you should be roughly handled by them you have only to blame yourself.
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Two of them, Sir Edward Leithen and John Palliser-Yeates, have that day visited the same doctor complaining of acute lethargy, of taedium vitae, and the third, Lord Lamancha, is described by his younger friend, Sir Archie Roylance, to be 'glum as an owl', declaring everything to be worthless. As Lamancha puts it, "the light has gone out of the landscape". The doctor told Leithen that his problem was that he had become too comfortable, too successful, that he should put either his life or his reputation at risk, and Palliser-Yeates received similar advice.
Archie, younger and just setting out on his career, is appalled, and says they should be ashamed of themselves. Thinking further on the matter, he tells them of Jim Tarras, who was driven by boredom to write to the owners of deer forests putting them on notice of his intention to kill a stag on their property between certain dates, and that if he were successful the body would be presented to its owner. Archie knows it to be true, because Tarras' man Wattie Lithgow now works for Archie at his property, Craske, up in the highlands.
The unsuspecting Archie is quizzed about Craske, and when his friends learn that his Craske neighbours have between them two deer parks and a salmon river the game is on. Letters are sent to Colonel Raden a Highland grandee, poor but of a family as old as the Flood , Mr Bandicott a newly arrived American renting the house with the salmon fishing , and the Rt Hon Lord Claybody whose money has come from trade and who is therefore presumably of recent title.
Each of the letters is signed 'John Macnab'.
This is a lightly comic novel, and the seemingly straightforward challenge of outwitting the landowners and their staff in order to make the kill and return the trophy is soon complicated by bright-haired girls, strange dogs, sharp-eyed locals, and an exponentially increasing cast of extras.
Beneath the comedy is the shadow of the Great War.
The novel was first published in , and therefore these men are all of an age to have fought in it. Leithen when describing his unshakable dissatisfaction to his doctor says "I tell you there's nothing at this moment that has the slightest charm for me. I'm bored with my work and I can't think of anything else of any kind for which I would cross the street. I don't even want to go into the country and sleep. It's been coming on for a long time - I dare say it's due somehow to the war Now there's nothing for me to do except earn an enormous income, which I haven't any need for. Like many people I had read The Thirty-Nine Steps a few times many years ago, and Greenmantle once more recently, but I had not really given much further thought to Buchan.
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I bought two other books by him at the same time as this, and reading the various introductions I see that Buchan tended to write from what he knew, frequently from identifiable models. On that basis the choice of professions for his John Macnabs is interesting, as I read that Buchan himself had been a barrister, soldier, journalist, politician, and finally Governor-General for Canada, being created the first Lord Tweedsmuir of Elsfield in , five years before his death.
Also interesting, and somewhat surprising, I read that Archie Roylance is a staple of the Hannay novels, while Leithen has his own series of novels. Archie is almost Wodehousian in John Macnab, so I will be interested to see if he keeps that quality in the Hannay books. Although the characters were not of any great complexity, after I finished the book I found that I missed them. Perfect light reading for a train journey through the Highlands and Islands.
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John Macnab is a novel by John Buchan, published in Three successful but bored friends in their mid-forties decide to turn to poaching. They issue a challenge to three of Roylance"s neighbours: first the Radens, who are an old-established family, about to die out; next, the Bandicotts: an American archaeologist and his son, who are renting a grand estate for the summer; and lastly the Claybodys, vulgar, bekilted nouveaux riches.