Prester JohnFans 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. |
Contents
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Chapter III Blaauwildebeestefontein | 33 |
Chapter IV My Journey to the WinterVeld | 43 |
Chapter V Mr Wardlaw Has a Premonition | 54 |
Chapter VI The Drums Beat at Sunset | 62 |
Chapter VII Captain Arcoll Tells a Tale | 73 |
Chapter VIII I Fall in Again with the Reverend John Laputa | 89 |
Chapter XIV I Carry the Collar of Prester John | 143 |
Chapter XV Morning in the Berg | 154 |
Chapter XVI Inandas Kraal | 163 |
Chapter XVII A Deal and its Consequences | 174 |
Chapter XVIII How a Man May Sometimes Put His Trust in a Horse | 186 |
Chapter XIX Arcolls Shepherding | 194 |
Chapter XX My Last Sight of the Reverend John Laputa | 204 |
Chapter XXI I Climb the Crags a Second Time | 215 |
Chapter IX The Store at Umvelos | 97 |
Chapter X I Go TreasureHunting | 107 |
Chapter XI The Cave of the Rooirand | 114 |
Chapter XII Captain Arcoll Sends a Message | 124 |
Chapter XIII The Drift of the Letaba | 137 |
Chapter XXII A Great Peril and a Great Salvation | 225 |
Chapter XXIII My Uncles Gift is Many Times Multiplied | 234 |
Endnotes | 240 |
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