{"product_id":"2940169451238","title":"Prester John","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan 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! \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DISCOS PALMAS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116611059952,"sku":"2940169451238","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169451238_p0.jpg?v=1772801491","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169451238","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}