Prester John
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97
1910
English
- I - The Man on the Kirkcaple Shore
- II - Furth! Fortune!
- III - Blaauwildebeestefontein
- IV - My Journey to the Winter-veld
- V - Mr. Wardlaw Has a Premonition
- VI - The Drums Beat at Sunset
- VII - Captain Arcoll Tells a Tale
- VIII - I Fall in Again with the Reverend John Laputa
- IX - The Store at Umvelos'
- X - I Go Treasure Hunting
- XI - The Cave of the Rooirand
- XII - Captain Arcoll Sends a Message
- XIII - The Drift of the Letaba
- XIV - I Carry the Collar of Prester John
- XV - Morning in the Berg
- XVI - Inanda's Kraal
- XVII - A Deal and Its Consequences
- XVIII - How a Man May Sometimes Put His Trust in a Horse
- XIX - Arcoll's Shepherding
- XX - My Last Sight of the Reverend John Laputa
- XXI - I Climb the Crags a Second Time
- XXII - A Great Peril and a Great Salvation
- XXIII - My Uncle's Gift Is Many Times Multiplied
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!
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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