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 & treacherous intrigues are afoot
- all bound up with the mysterious primeval kingdom of Prester John. Written as a boys adventure story & set mostly in South Africa (where Buchan had worked) Prester John" was published in 1910 when Buchan was 35. Its a fast-moving thriller in the style of Robert Louis Stevenson & Rider Haggard."