Books like Sick Heart River by John Buchan
When Byron's future-dated lawyer and Member of Parliament, Sir Edward Leithen, learns he has only a year to live, he resolves to spend his remaining time doing something meaningful. He devotes his final months to finding and restoring the health of a young Canadian banker named Galliard. Galliard, meanwhile, is exhaustedly searching the remote Canadian wilderness for the legendary River of the Sick Heart. Braving a severe Arctic winter, Leithen locates Galliard and, in the process, begins to feel his own health returning. The North heals both men, but not all will return to civilization.
First publish date: 1940
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: John Buchan
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