Prester John

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9780140011388
  • 26 maart 1981
  • 208 pagina's
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John Buchan

John Buchan was born in Perth. His father was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland; and in 1876 the family moved to Fife where in order to attend the local school the small boy had to walk six miles a day. Later they moved again to the Gorbals in Glasgow and John Buchan went to Hutchesons' Grammar School, Glasgow University (by which time he was already publishing articles in periodicals) and Brasenose College, Oxford. His years at Oxford - 'spent peacefully in an enclave like a monastery' - nevertheless opened up yet more horizons and he published five books and many articles, won several awards including the Newdigate Prize for poetry and gained a First. His career was equally diverse and successful after university and, despite ill-health and continual pain from a duodenal ulcer, he played a prominent part in public life as a barrister and Member of Parliament, in addition to being a writer, soldier and publisher. In 1907 he married Susan Grosvenor, and the marriage was supremely happy. They had one daughter and three sons. He was created Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield in 1935 and became the fifteenth Governor-General of Canada, a position he held until his death in 1940. 'I don't think I remember anyone,' wrote G. M. Trevelyan to his widow, 'whose death evoked a more enviable outburst of sorrow, love and admiration.'

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_Prester John_, written in 1910, was John Buchan's sixth novel. It was his first worldwide bestseller, and established him as a writer of the fast-paced adventures for which he became famous. _Prester John_ tells the tale of John Laputa, a celebrated Zulu minister who has taken the title of the mythical priest-king Prester John. We see the story through the eyes of nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd, a young Scot in South Africa working as a storekeeper: Crawfurd he finds himself at the heart of a massive uprising of the people -- and holding the key to Prester John's secret. (Jacketless library hardcover.)

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26 maart 1981
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208
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110 mm
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180 mm
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122 g

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