Prester John is Buchan's first adventure story and is comparable in style and pace to Rider Haggard and Robert Louis Stevenson. Set in South Africa in 1900 it has a simple but compelling story which will keep you hooked to the pages from start to finish. From the eastern shores of Scotland to Southern Africa the reader is taken into an exciting but entirely credible world of adventure involving fabulous treasure, violence, double-dealing, a native uprising and the protagonist's eventual triumph over the forces of evil.
From the Introduction by Trevor Royle in Prester John:
Prester John is a wonderfully solid achievement. Not only did it give Buchan the confidence that he was a natural teller of tales but its fast-moving action looks forward to later adventure novels such as The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), Greenmantle (1916) and Huntingtower (1922). It was the prentice piece on which all his future fiction was constructed.
This classic book is John Buchan's 1910 novel, "e;Prester John"e;. It tells the tale of a young Scottish man called David Crawfurd who travels to South Africa. Contents include: "e;The Man on the Kirkcaple Shore"e;, "e;Furth! Fortune!"e;, "e;Blauauwildebestefonein"e;, "e;My Journey to the Winter-Veld"e;, "e;Mr Wardlaw Has a Premonition"e;, "e;The Drums Beat at Sunset"e;, "e;Captain Arcoll Tells a Tale"e;, "e;I Fall in Again with the Reverend John Laputa"e;, "e;The Store at Umvelos'"e;, etc. John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian who served as Governor General of Canada. Many classic books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
