Prester John
by John Buchan
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ISBN: 9780857901620
Published: 01 Nov 2011
Format: E-Book
Extent: 224
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Categories:
Classic fiction
Classic fiction
About the Book
South Africa, 1900. After his father dies, nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd is sent off to South Africa to earn his living as a storekeeper in the back of beyond. A strange encounter on the journey suggests that dark deeds and treacherous intrigues are afoot - all bound up with the mysterious primeval kingdom of Prester John. Written as a boys' adventure story and set mostly in South Africa (where Buchan had worked), "Prester John" was published in 1910 when Buchan was 35. It's a fast-moving thriller in the style of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rider Haggard.