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Prester John

by John Buchan

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First published: 1910
Pages: 187

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I - The Man on the Kirkcaple Shore
26:30
II - Furth! Fortune!
29:51
III - Blaauwildebeestefontein
21:47
IV - My Journey to the Winter-veld
23:31
V - Mr. Wardlaw Has a Premonition
14:07
VI - The Drums Beat at Sunset
21:02
VII - Captain Arcoll Tells a Tale
28:55
VIII - I Fall in Again with the Reverend John Laputa
14:19
IX - The Store at Umvelos'
17:50
X - I Go Treasure Hunting
12:55
XI - The Cave of the Rooirand
21:20
XII - Captain Arcoll Sends a Message
24:56
XIII - The Drift of the Letaba
11:21
XIV - I Carry the Collar of Prester John
22:44
XV - Morning in the Berg
16:45
XVI - Inanda's Kraal
20:53
XVII - A Deal and Its Consequences
24:42
XVIII - How a Man May Sometimes Put His Trust in a Horse
15:06
XIX - Arcoll's Shepherding
20:06
XX - My Last Sight of the Reverend John Laputa
20:43
XXI - I Climb the Crags a Second Time
22:57
XXII - A Great Peril and a Great Salvation
20:21
XXIII - My Uncle's Gift Is Many Times Multiplied
12:13

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David Crawfurd is nineteen, broke, and stuck behind the counter of a trading store in the South African veld when he works out what the Reverend John Laputa is planning. Laputa, educated and magnetic, carries the ruby necklet said to have belonged to Prester John himself, and he means to raise the tribes and drive the settlers into the sea. Buchan wrote this in 1910, five years before Richard Hannay, and the chase machinery is already running at full speed. Modern readers meet its colonial assumptions head on, yet Buchan gives Laputa a grandeur that unsettles his own politics, and the villain ends up the largest figure in the book. Read the full novel here as a free PDF and EPUB edition.

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John Buchan

John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and statesman who served as Governor General of Canada. His fast-paced Richard Hannay thrillers helped define the espionage adventure genre.