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...
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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
Title; 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 JohnChapter 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
