The Blanket of the Dark Readers Will Be Familiar with John Rider Caught in an Unexpected Snowstorm Buchan's Richard Hannay Adventure in the Forest

The Wychwood April 2010 Book Review The Blanket of the Dark Readers will be familiar with John rider caught in an unexpected snowstorm Buchan's Richard Hannay adventure in the Forest. stories such as the Thirty Nine Steps or maybe some of his Scottish stories such Spot Local Settings and Win Wine! as Huntingtower. But I was not aware But the star attraction for local readers until coming to the Wychwoods that he must be the variety of settings not many had set two novels in our miles from where you area. I laid my hands first are sitting. Places are on Midwinter and named and described in confess to being loving detail with little or disappointed. The no disguise and I re-read Blanket of the Dark is in the book with an old a different league. Ordnance Survey map to hand as I followed the A Good Read For hero's route from Oxford Any Age via Wood Eaton and Set in the period of the around the fringes of Dissolution of the Otmoor (John Buchan Monasteries the story lived for a long time at describes the adventures Elsfield and is buried of the hero (a monk by there). By my reckoning training but with a his foster mother lived distinctly unconventional somewhere between background) as he is Leafield and Minster caught up in the Lovell. Shipton appears threatened risings in the Cotswolds several times, sometimes in its own right against the rule of Henry VIII and as Shipton Barren aka Waste or only Thomas Cromwell. This is an unput- lightly cloaked as Shipton under the downable good read for boys and girls of Forest. Even Witney is mentioned - as a all ages starting from about ten years old, poor little place. Ramsden and Swinbrook but the interest for the modern reader will get a better press, even if Swinbrook is also lie in the author's feel for the infested by the King's Fettiplace historical period. John Buchan moves his supporters. The denouement perhaps hero easily from the depths of the takes place on the bridge across the Wychwood Forest , via Osney Abbey and Evenlode at Charlbury. Read it and tell rough taverns in the lower parts of me what you think. Oxford, to an eventual lodging in his To encourage your reading and patron's luxurious country house researches, your reviewer will offer a somewhere west of here, where you can bottle of wine, care of this magazine, to feel the warmth of the fire, the red the most plausible and best documented tapestry hangings and the oh so luxurious index to the current location of the places (though still cold) linen sheets. And I mentioned in the book. shiver still as I recall his description of a Robin McConnachie