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Prester John

by John Buchan

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A gripping adventure story of an African minister who claims to be the successor to Prester John and leads his people, of all tribes, in an uprising against the whites. John Crawfurd, newly out from Scotland, is the shop-keeper who foils his plans. ( )
  RTS1942 | Jan 6, 2010 |
Buchan at his best ( )
  brone | Aug 18, 2009 |
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South Africa at the turn of the century. Crawfurd, his studies interrupted by his father's death, is off to work as a storekeeper. But a strange encounter and the whispers he hears on the journey tell him that Blaauwildebeestefontein may not be as predictable as he has supposed.

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