Prester John

by John Buchan · 1910

A young Scot in South Africa is caught up in a native uprising led by a charismatic preacher claiming an ancient kingship.

Books mentioned in Prester John (3)

• The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan: “The Pilgrim's Progress had been the Sabbath reading of my boyhood”
• Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare: ““Unarm, Eros,” he cried.”
• Anabasis by Xenophon: “Xenophon’s Ten Thousand did not hail the sea more gladly”