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Nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd travels from Scotland to South Africa to work as a storekeeper. On the voyage he encounters again John Laputa, the celebrated Zulu minister, of whom he has strange memories. In his remote store David finds himself with the key to a massive uprising led by the minister, who has taken the title of the mythical priest-king, Prester John. David's courage and his understanding of this man take him to the heart of the uprising, a secret cave in the Rooirand. John Buchan wrote Prester John, his sixth novel, in 1910, seven years after he returned from South Africa. It was his first to reach a wide readership across the world, and it established him as the writer of the fast-paced adventures for which he is famous. In this, the only critical edition, David Daniell shows what went into the making of Prester John and explores what sets it apart from the boys' yarns of the period.
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Nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd travels from Scotland to South Africa to work as a storekeeper. On the voyage he encounters again John Laputa, the celebrated Zulu minister, of whom he has strange memories. In his remote store David finds himself with the key to a massive uprising led by the minister, who has taken the title of the mythical priest-king, Prester John. David's courage and his understanding of this man take him to the heart of the uprising, a secret cave in the Rooirand. John Buchan wrote Prester John, his sixth novel, in 1910, seven years after he returned from South Africa. It was his first to reach a wide readership across the world, and it established him as the writer of the fast-paced adventures for which he is famous. In this, the only critical edition, David Daniell shows what went into the making of Prester John and explores what sets it apart from the boys' yarns of the period.
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John Buchan, one of Alfred Hitchcock's favorite writers, was a Scottish diplomat, barrister, journalist, historian, poet and novelist. He published nearly 30 novels and seven collections of short stories. He was born in Perth, an eldest son, and studied at Glasgow and Oxford. In 1901 he became a barrister of the Middle Temple and a private secretary to the High Commissioner for South Africa. In 1907 he married Susan Charlotte Grosvenor and they subsequently had four children. After spells as a war correspondent, Lloyd George's Director of Information and Conservative MP, Buchan moved to Canada in 1935. He served as Governor General there until his death in 1940. Trevor Royle is a broadcaster and author specializing in the history of war and empire. His is the author of several books including The Flowers of the Forest: Scotland and the First World War. Trevor is associate editor of the Sunday Herald and a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (May 1956)
Language: English, Spanish
ISBN-13: 978-
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4.3 x 0.5 x 7.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
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on November 13, 2015Format: Paperback
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If you want to learn how the British colonized South Africa, this is the book. If you want to learn how the native population may have viewed that colonization, you got it, this is the book. This book is about a Scottish immigrant who comes to South Africa and becomes involved in both situations. This book is a very active narrative that keeps the Scot on his feet, and then some, literally. Be prepared to try to understand the attitudes and customs of that time.
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on May 12, 2014Format: Paperback
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My reasons for reading this book as an adult are *very* different from the reasons I read it as a 12-year-old boy.
Buchan is a very strange author.
He set out to become a writer and later changed his career path to law and administration.
But the habit of writing a yarn every so often never went away - and, after the publication of his very well-known shocker, 'Thirty-Nine Steps', his stories became good money-spinners.
The shockers are a strange mixture of good old-fashioned sensational story and political indoctrination.
The political views look old fashioned now
but there were uglier political stori this fact should not be forgotten.
This book gives a largely fanciful story of a projected revolution against foreign rule in South A this gives Buchan a chance to write of his earlier experiences in South Africa and express the European Imperialist convictions that had formed in his mind while working there as Lord Milner's private secretary.
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on May 15, 2015Format: Kindle Edition
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The tale speaks of the white man's duties to uplift and govern natives.
If you can put a hold on the natural self-righteousness that you'll get while reading this gem, you'll find yourself dashing through a "story of glory."It's as good an adventure yarn as you'll get anywhere: real men doing real deeds...some for love of tribe, some for love of country, some for love of gold.I'd not heard of John Buchan before this, but I'm surely going to look for other works of his.
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on December 9, 2015Format: Kindle Edition
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I decided to begin reading John Buchan's books because Christopher Hitchens recommended them. Prester John discloses European benign racism in full flower. But the protagonist's words make it difficult to hate him for it. This is an adventure book that tweaks our minds with questions about our own views of our fellow man. I strongly recommend it.
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on December 25, 2012Format: Kindle Edition
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Although some of the language will grate with many modern readers, this is still a classic adventure story in the vein of The 39 Steps, which is also by John Buchan, and A Twist of Sand by Geoffrey Jenkins. The story of a Scottish immigrant who uncovers a planned mass uprising has a stirring climax. Although the book has a "white man's burden" tone at times, the writer makes clear his admiration for John Laputa, the (black) clergyman who plans to cleanse South Africa by purging it of whites.
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on February 28, 2015Format: Kindle Edition
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This is an old classic adventure set in South Africa in colonial days. It contains great descriptive writing about moving through the landscape. The characterization and exposition are often wooden and the old fashioned views on race and culture now seem bizarre.
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on January 24, 2014Format: Kindle Edition
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One of the Buchan classics that has been overshadowed by the better known but less well crafted "Thirty-Nine Steps"One for those who love the older style adventure tales.
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on February 4, 2016Format: Kindle Edition
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Buchan's earliest work, based on his years in S. Africa.
Intended for adolescent boys:
an exciting adventure story, but glorifying imperialism over backward natives.
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