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.
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Publisher
The Floating PressYear
2012eBook ISBN
9781775561163Edition
0Table 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