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Prester John

Prester John

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Number of Chapters: 23

Length: 7 hours and 44 minutes

Language: English

This classic adventure novel by the author of Greenmantle and The Thirty-Nine Steps relates the first-person exploits of young David Crawfurd before the age of twenty.

As a boy growing up on the coast of Scotland, minister's son Davie and two friends were pursued with murderous intent along the cliffs one night by John Laputa, a visiting black African preacher, whom they had witnessed performing un-Christian rites round a campfire on the beach. A few years later, when his father's death forces Davie to quit college and join the tribe of wandering Scots, our hero finds himself in South Africa, assistant shopkeeper in a seemingly sleepy back-veldt store. There he re-encounters Laputa, now charismatic leader of an incipient native uprising, secretly preaching the incendiary creed of "Africa for the Africans," and proclaiming himself heir to the mantle of Prester John, a legendary 15th-century Christian king of Ethiopia.

Can young Davie possibly penetrate the megalomaniac's mountain stronghold, foil the insurrection, prevent a massacre of white settlers, and make off with the rebels' war-chest of gold and diamonds? It's going to take some doing - and not a little derring-do!

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