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Prester John
- Author
- John Buchan
- Narrator
- Frederick Davidson
- Publisher
- Craig Black
- Publish Date
- 3 August 2012
- Run Time
- 7 hours 29 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Three young truants from a church meeting on Sunday make their way to a seashore hideaway, where they observe a huge black man muttering incantations and performing weird rites. When the man discovers the children, he chases them with a knife. In defense, Davy Crawfurd flings a rock at him, and they narrowly escape.
Years later, young David Crawfurd goes to South Africa to make his fortune and is caught in the very heart of a great native uprising. Under strange circumstances, he comes face-to-face with its leader, only to recognize the strange blazing eyes of the black man he had encountered as a child on the beach. How David makes his fortune more quickly and more perilously than he had expected is told in this thrilling tale of adventure.
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Details
- Author
- John Buchan
- Narrator
- Frederick Davidson
- Duration
- 7 hours 29 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 August 2012
- ISBN
- 9781481574624
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Craig Black
- Genre
- Adventure fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction
Synopsis
Three young truants from a church meeting on Sunday make their way to a seashore hideaway, where they observe a huge black man muttering incantations and performing weird rites. When the man discovers the children, he chases them with a knife. In defense, Davy Crawfurd flings a rock at him, and they narrowly escape.Years later, young David Crawfurd goes to South Africa to make his fortune and is caught in the very heart of a great native uprising. Under strange circumstances, he comes face-to-face with its leader, only to recognize the strange blazing eyes of the black man he had encountered as a child on the beach. How David makes his fortune more quickly and more perilously than he had expected is told in this thrilling tale of adventure.
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