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John Macnab
John Buchan
(Hodder & Stoughton, Jan. 1, 1967)John Macnab is the second most famous novel by John Buchan, published in 1925. It is a story of three successful men - a barrister, cabinet minister and banker who are bored. They decide to alleviate the boredom by anonymously informing three Scottish estates that they intend to poach a stag or a salmon and returning it to them undetected. It is about daring thinking and high living set in the beautiful Highlands of Scotland and evoking images of the hunting, shooting and fishing lifestyle.
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John Macnab
John Buchan
(Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, July 6, 1960)None
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John Macnab
John Buchan
(, Jan. 16, 2020)Three men, each eminent in his field, feel stale and bored with life, so decide to pit their skills against three landowners and their gillies by forewarning them of intent to kill a deer or catch a salmon on their property and then return it to them, meanwhile evading capture.
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John Macnab
John Buchan
(Reading Essentials, Jan. 1, 2021)Three high-flying men - a barrister, a cabinet minister and a banker - are suffering from boredom. They concoct a plan to cure it. They inform three Scottish estates that they will poach from each two stags and a salmon in a given time and return it all undetected. They sign collectively as "John Macnab" and await the responses and fight with their neighbors who believe they are going to steal from their land. This novel is also an evocative look at the hunting, shooting and fishing lifestyle in Highland Scotland.