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LibriVox recording of Prester John, by John Buchan. Read by Grant Hurlock.
This classic adventure novel by the author of Greenmantle and The Thirty-Nine Steps relates the first-person exploits of young David Crawfurd before the age of twenty.
As a boy growing up on the coast of Scotland, minister's son Davie and two friends were pursued with murderous intent along the cliffs one night by John Laputa, a visiting black African preacher, whom they had witnessed performing un-Christian rites round a campfire on the beach.
A few years later, when his father's death forces Davie to quit college and join the tribe of wandering Scots, our hero finds himself in South Africa, assistant shopkeeper in a seemingly sleepy back-veldt store. There he re-encounters Laputa, now charismatic leader of an incipient native uprising, secretly preaching the incendiary creed of "Africa for the Africans," and proclaiming himself heir to the mantle of Prester John, a legendary 15th-century Christian king of Ethiopia.
Can young Davie possibly penetrate the megalomaniac's mountain stronghold, foil the insurrection, prevent a massacre of white settlers, and make off with the rebels' war-chest of gold and diamonds?
It's going to take some doing - and not a little derring-do!
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This audio is part of the collection: The LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection
It also belongs to collections: Audio Books & Poetry; Community Audio
Artist/Composer: John Buchan
Date: 2009-11-26
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; South Africa; adventure
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
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| prester_john_gh_librivox_64kb_mp3.zip | 64Kbps MP3 ZIP | 212.9 MB |
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| 01 - The Man on the Kirkcaple Shore |
24.3 MB
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| 02 - Furth! Fortune! |
27.3 MB
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| 03 - Blaauwildebeestefontein |
19.9 MB
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| 04 - My Journey to the Winter-veld |
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14.7 MB
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| 05 - Mr. Wardlaw Has a Premonition |
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| 06 - The Drums Beat at Sunset |
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| 07 - Captain Arcoll Tells a Tale |
26.5 MB
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19.1 MB
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| 08 - I Fall in Again with the Reverend John Laputa |
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9.2 MB
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| 09 - The Store at Umvelos' |
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| 10 - I Go Treasure Hunting |
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| 11 - The Cave of the Rooirand |
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| 12 - Captain Arcoll Sends a Message |
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| 13 - The Drift of the Letaba |
10.4 MB
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| 14 - I Carry the Collar of Prester John |
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| 15 - Morning in the Berg |
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| 16 - Inanda's Kraal |
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13.7 MB
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| 17 - A Deal and Its Consequences |
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| 18 - How a Man May Sometimes Put His Trust in a Horse |
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| 19 - Arcoll's Shepherding |
18.4 MB
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| 20 - My Last Sight of the Reverend John Laputa |
19.0 MB
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13.2 MB
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| 21 - I Climb the Crags a Second Time |
21.0 MB
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14.6 MB
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| 22 - A Great Peril and a Great Salvation |
18.6 MB
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13.0 MB
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| 23 - My Uncle's Gift Is Many Times Multiplied |
11.2 MB
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Reviewer:
Jennabar -
Subject:
enjoyable action story
I really enjoyed this book. At first I thought the reader was a trifle monotonous, but I got used to it to the point of actually looking for more of his reading. I think the reading does well by this book. The story is about a young man just beginning to make his way in the world. He stumbles upon hints of a native uprising and massacre, manages to get the news through to higher officials, and takes a hand in the proceedings himself. I think this book is one of Buchan's better novels, the best being of course Thirty-nine Steps. This one is not as contrived as Greenmantle or Standfast; the author keeps his character in the middle of the action without making him the only one to save the day, and that ad infinitum. He does help save the day, but more by wits than extraordinary luck.
Recommended
