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PRESTER JOHN IBD

CLASSY PUBLISHING
07 / 2022
9789355221308
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Sinopsis

Prester John is a adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It tells the story of a young Scotsman named David Crawfurd and his adventures in South Africa, where a Zulu uprising under the charismatic black minister John Laputa is tied to the medieval legend of Prester John. South Africa, 1900. After his father dies, nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd is sent off to South Africa to earn his living as a storekeeper in the back of beyond. A strange encounter on the journey suggests that dark deeds and treacherous intrigues are afoot - all bound up with the mysterious primeval kingdom of Prester John. Written as a boys? adventure story and set mostly in South Africa (where Buchan had worked), 'Prester John' was published in 1910 when Buchan was 35. It?s a fast-moving thriller in the style of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rider Haggard.

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