No-man's-land
By John Buchan
1899
First Published
4.00
Average Rating
67
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'No-Man's Land' is the best of the stories that Buchan wrote to pay his way at university. The narrator is a young Oxford Fellow in Celtic Studies who during a fishing and walking holiday stumbles on a small tribe of Picts. They have survived for millennia in Galloway caves and at once thrill him with the excitement of his discovery and terrify him with their cruelty and lust to kill. He escapes, but despite the risk returns, and is again taken prisoner. He is saved by a storm and landslide, and the tale ends with an unexpected twist which leaves the reader wondering what in the story is reality and what is illusion.
Avg Rating
4.00
Number of Ratings
17
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