The Path Of The King
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
From a Viking longship to the forests of colonial America, The Path of the King traces the bloodline of greatness across centuries, following a single thread of royal destiny as it winds through the lives of ordinary men and women caught in extraordinary moments of history. John Buchan's sweeping episodic novel chronicles the journey of a kingly spirit, passed like a torch from generation to generation, manifesting in warriors, woodsmen, and wanderers who may never know the noble inheritance they carry within them. Buchan, the masterly Scottish author best known for The Thirty-Nine Steps, brings his characteristic vigour and romantic sensibility to this ambitious work, weaving together a tapestry of vignettes that span continents and ages. Each chapter stands as its own self-contained adventure, yet all are bound by a grand, almost mythic inevitability — the idea that greatness cannot be extinguished, only passed on. It is a meditation on heritage, fate, and the quiet heroism of history's forgotten figures, leaving the reader to wonder: in whose veins does that ancient blood now run?
Author: John Buchan
Format: Hardback
Published: 1954, Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
From a Viking longship to the forests of colonial America, The Path of the King traces the bloodline of greatness across centuries, following a single thread of royal destiny as it winds through the lives of ordinary men and women caught in extraordinary moments of history. John Buchan's sweeping episodic novel chronicles the journey of a kingly spirit, passed like a torch from generation to generation, manifesting in warriors, woodsmen, and wanderers who may never know the noble inheritance they carry within them. Buchan, the masterly Scottish author best known for The Thirty-Nine Steps, brings his characteristic vigour and romantic sensibility to this ambitious work, weaving together a tapestry of vignettes that span continents and ages. Each chapter stands as its own self-contained adventure, yet all are bound by a grand, almost mythic inevitability — the idea that greatness cannot be extinguished, only passed on. It is a meditation on heritage, fate, and the quiet heroism of history's forgotten figures, leaving the reader to wonder: in whose veins does that ancient blood now run?