Prester John
by Buchan, John (1875-1940)
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London: Nelson, 1949. Reprinted Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked cloth, edges very slightly toned. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Provenance; from the personal library of Professor Lloyd Austin, University of Manchester. Physical description; 245 pages. Summary; Nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd travels from Scotland to South Africa to work as a storekeeper. On the voyage he encounters again John Laputa, the celebrated Zulu minister, of whom he has strange memories. In his remote store David finds himself with the key to a massive uprising, led by the minister, who has taken the title of the mythical priest-king, Prester John. David's courage and his understanding of this man take him to the heart of the uprising, a secret cave in the Rooirand. John Buchan wrote Prester John , his sixth novel, in 1910, seven years after he himself returned from South Africa. It was his first to reach a wide readership across the world, and it established him as the writer of fast-paced adventures for which he is famous. In this, the only critical edition, David Daniell shows what went into the making of Prester John and explores what sets it apart from the boys' yarns of the period. This book is intended for students on courses about the early Adventure Novel. Students on courses about Commonwealth literature/history. Subjects; Zulu (African people) - Fiction. Clergy - South Africa - Fiction. Scots - South Africa - Fiction. Adventure / thriller. Modern fiction ; Novels, other prose & writers. Literary studies: from (c 1900 -). English. Fiction / General.
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I mind as if it were yesterday my first sight of the man. Little I knew at the time how big the moment was with destiny, or how often that face seen in the fitful moonlight would haunt my sleep and disturb my waking hours. But I mind yet the cold grue of terror I got from it, a terror which was surely more than the due of a few truant lads breaking the Sabbath with their play.
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- Title
- Prester John
- Author
- Buchan, John (1875-1940)
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- Hardcover
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- Reprinted Edition
- Publisher
- London: Nelson
- Date Published
- 1949
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