The cover page is adapted from On the Terrace, Barra Castle, Aberdeenshire, a painting completed in 1854 by James Cassie. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cassiewww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Huntingtower
Chapitres (18)
- Dedication 0:00
- Prologue 1:58
- I: How a Retired Provision Merchant Felt the Impulse of Spring 10:12
- II: Of Mr. John Heritage and the Difference in Points of View 28:13
- III: How Childe Roland and Another Came to the Dark Tower 58:00
- IV: Dougal 1:38:16
- V: Of the Princess in the Tower 2:02:08
- VI: How Mr. McCunn Departed with Relief and Returned with Resolution 2:50:25
- VII: Sundry Doings in the Mirk 3:24:39
- VIII: How a Middle-Aged Crusader Accepted a Challenge 3:55:30
- IX: The First Battle of the Cruives 4:22:25
- X: Deals with an Escape and a Journey 4:52:32
- XI: Gravity Out of Bed 5:25:03
- XII: How Mr. McCunn Committed an Assault Upon an Ally 5:50:16
- XIII: The Coming of the Danish Brig 6:20:36
- XIV: The Second Battle of the Cruives 6:40:23
- XV: The Gorbals Die-Hards Go Into Action 7:27:41
- XVI: In Which a Princess Leaves a Dark Tower and a Provision Merchant Returns to His Family 7:59:22
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Published in 1922, Huntingtower is the first of John Buchan’s novels to feature Dickson McCunn.
McCunn, recently retired, embarks upon a walking tour of southwestern Scotland and encounters a poet and former soldier on his travels. They spend the evening in a small village, and when they investigate a large empty house nearby, they hear a woman singing from within. McCann’s companion recognizes the woman’s voice as belonging to a Russian princess he had worshiped from afar when he was stationed in Europe. A gang of street-urchins inform the pair that the princess and her companion are held prisoner, and all agree to join forces and effect a rescue.
The book was made into a silent movie in 1928, and has also been adapted for radio.