Davie Crawfurd, a minister’s son from Fife, first sees the Reverend John Laputa performing a strange rite on a Scottish beach. Years later, working as a storekeeper in the northern Transvaal, he meets the man again and discovers that Laputa, a charismatic preacher, is gathering the tribes for a rising under the legendary necklace of Prester John.
An early Buchan thriller of caves, treasure and pursuit, though its imperial and racial attitudes are very much those of 1910. Download the free EPUB.