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Sick Heart River () is a novel by Scottish author John Buchan set in Canada. It was published posthumously. The book was published in the United States.
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Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jan 23, Cathy rated it it was amazing Shelves: buchan-of-the-month , classics-club , classics. In fact, he finished it only a fortnight before his death and it was published posthumously. Although Buchan cannot have known his own death was so close, there is definitely an elegiac quality to the book. Perhaps the process of recalling the experiences of earlier days, the loss of old friends and taking stock contributed to the reflective, meditative sense the reader gets from Sick Heart River.
Diagnosed with tuberculosis, a legacy of his experiences in the First World War, and with no prospect of recovery, Sir Edward Leithen seeks a way to give purpose to the last few months of his life. When the task of finding Francis Galliard comes his way, via a mutual friend, initially he has no particular interest on a personal level in the object of his search. Leithen undertakes the task purely to prevent himself lapsing into self-pity or suffering the slow demise he fears. I was thinking only of myself, and the job suited me. In Sick Heart River, it leads to a journey that risks the lives of Leithen and his companions.
As Sick Heart River reaches its conclusion, the world has once more been plunged into the calamity of another war. At the end of Sick Heart River, in an act of epic self-sacrifice and knowing the likely outcome, Leithen takes command of a task that will prove to be his final battle. View 1 comment. Sep 14, Carolyn rated it it was amazing.
This was written the year Buchan died and in fact he actually died about a week after he finished it. It has a valedictory air and is very inspiring and sad. It has been called his masterpiece and I can't disagree. I'm a great Buchan fan, so perhaps I'm biased, but I liked this very much. One of his best. Oct 23, Suzannah rated it really liked it Shelves: classics.
Read for the second time 2 Sept Full review coming. Leithen, a retired British politician and lawyer, has just learned that he will be dead from Tuberculosis within a year and has slowly begun to shut himself off from the world, both from his friends and from the looming international tension. A chance encounter gives him the opportunity to lead a search party into the wilds of Canada on a rescue mission. Being a former outdoorsman and preferring to die on his feet rather than in a sickbed, Leithen accepts this proposal, not knowing that this trip will ultimately lead him to the most desolate places of the Canadian north and put not only his fate but the fates of his companions in his hands.
Its atmospheric writing transports you right into each scene alongside the characters. It has a lead and a supporting cast that are very relatable and likable, all with their own worries and personal demons to overcome. Above all else though, like all great literature, it tackles the big questions; it takes a good, long look at the facets of the human condition—such as doubt, terror, and, especially, obsession—and ultimately offers a message of power and hope. The fact that Buchan wrote this as he himself was dying only adds to its strength. This book will make you cry. It will keep you on the edge of your seat.
It will, at times, even horrify you. But it will also warm your heart and reinvigorate your spirit. This is Buchan's last novel, about a man who is dying, and it must reflect Buchan's own efforts to come to terms with his looming demise. Those dimensions of the book are powerful and give a depth to this work which is missing in some of B's adventure novels. Above all, though, this is a book that confronts the frightening immensity and grim beauty of the Canadian north.
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Not many writers have tried to meet that challenge, and this book is one of the first. Ignore the racist paternalism that so This is Buchan's last novel, about a man who is dying, and it must reflect Buchan's own efforts to come to terms with his looming demise. Ignore the racist paternalism that so characterizes much British writing of the period, and be moved by this story of the struggle for human survival in a harsh yet inspiring environment.
Oct 20, Frankie rated it liked it. I had my usual problem with Buchan in this one; ie, that he is at times racist - i suppose he was a man of his time and the views of authors writing a century ago are going to be different, but some of his descriptions of the native american characters made me squirm and fume at the same time. The main point of the story is the death of the main character, so as you can imagine its not exactly cheery.
Buchan finished it just I had my usual problem with Buchan in this one; ie, that he is at times racist - i suppose he was a man of his time and the views of authors writing a century ago are going to be different, but some of his descriptions of the native american characters made me squirm and fume at the same time. Buchan finished it just before his own death after a long illness, but despite that my overall feeling was that it was a hopeful book.
May 15, Jon A. I am enchanted by the great Canadian 'North' and have spent many years past exploring and enjoying its seemingly never changing uniqueness and mystical aura. I very much enjoy reading the writings of John Buchan, also. I found this book to be a marvelously good read. One of my favorite John Buchan books. Jun 24, dragonhelmuk rated it liked it.
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To view it, click here. This book is very self-reflective, and has no connection to the previous books with regard to genre the whole series is very irregular. A part of the globe which had no care for human life, which was not built to man's scale, a remnant of that Ice Age which long ago had withered the earth. As a young man he had felt its spell when he looked from the Clairefontaine height of land towards the Arctic watershed.
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The Gaillard family for generations had felt it. Like brave men they had gone out to wrestle with it, and had not returned. Johnny, even the stolid Johnny, had confessed that he had had his bad moments.
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Lew--Heaven knows what aboriginal wildness was mingled with his Highland blood! But he was bred to the life of the North and could fall back upon its ritual and defy it by domesticating it. Yet at any moment the fire might kindle again in him. As for Galliard, he was bound to the North by race and creed and family tradition; it was not hard for the gods of the Elder Ice to stretch a long arm and pluck him from among the flesh-pots.
Oddly enough, it settled on none of the high lights. And there had been hours of special satisfaction--when he won the mile at school and college, his first big success at the Bar, his maiden speech in the House, his capture of the salmon when he and Lamancha and Palliser-Yeates poached in the Highlands. But though his memory passed these things in review, it did not dwell on them.
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Three scenes seemed to attract it especially, and he found that he could spend hours contentedly in reconstructing them and tasting their flavour. The first belonged to his childhood. One morning in spring he had left his Border home determined to find what lay beyond the head of a certain glen. He had his rod with him, for he was an ardent fisherman, and lunch in his pocket--two jam sandwiches, a dainty known as a currant scone, two bread-and-butter sandwiches, a hard- boiled egg, and an apple--lovingly he remembered every detail.
His short legs had crossed the head of the glen beyond the well-eye of the burn, and had climbed to the tableland of peat haggs and gravel, which was the watershed.
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Here he encountered an April hailstorm, and had to shelter in a hagg, where he ate his luncheon with intense relish.