Prester John

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781775561163
• Edition: 0

Fans of H. Rider Haggard''s action-adventure novels will be swept away by John Buchan''s Prester John, a thrill-a-minute tale set in colonial Africa. Young David Crawfurd travels to Africa to make a quick buck as a merchant, but the ambitious entrepreneur soon finds himself caught in the middle of an uprising -- and under the sway of a charismatic rebel leader with a mysterious past.

Table of contents

• PRESTER JOHN
• Contents
• Chapter I - The Man on the Kirkcaple Shore
• Chapter II - Furth! Fortune!
• Chapter III - Blaauwildebeestefontein
• Chapter IV - My Journey to the Winter-Veld
• Chapter V - Mr Wardlaw Has a Premonition
• Chapter VI - The Drums Beat at Sunset
• Chapter VII - Captain Arcoll Tells a Tale
• Chapter VIII - I Fall in Again with the Reverend John Laputa
• Chapter IX - The Store at Umvelos'
• Chapter X - I Go Treasure-Hunting
• Chapter XI - The Cave of the Rooirand
• Chapter XII - Captain Arcoll Sends a Message
• Chapter XIII - The Drift of the Letaba
• Chapter XIV - I Carry the Collar of Prester John
• Chapter XV - Morning in the Berg
• Chapter XVI - Inanda's Kraal
• Chapter XVII - A Deal and its Consequences
• Chapter XVIII - How a Man May Sometimes Put His Trust in a Horse
• Chapter XIX - Arcoll's Shepherding
• Chapter XX - My Last Sight of the Reverend John Laputa
• Chapter XXI - I Climb the Crags a Second Time
• Chapter XXII - A Great Peril and a Great Salvation
• Chapter XXIII - My Uncle's Gift is Many Times Multiplied
• Endnotes