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.

The Law Relating to the Taxation of Foreign Income by John Buchan. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1905 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, 26 August 1875 - 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a brief legal career, Buchan simultaneously began his writing career and his political and diplomatic careers, serving as a private secretary to the colonial administrator of various colonies in southern Africa. He eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort in the First World War. Buchan was in 1927 elected Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities,...

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, 26 August 1875 - 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a brief legal career, Buchan simultaneously began his writing career and his political and diplomatic careers, serving as a private secretary to the colonial administrator of various colonies in southern Africa. He eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort in the First World War. Buchan was in 1927 elected Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities,...

L'action se deroule a Londres, Edimbourg et en Ecosse. Richard Hannay, ancien ingenieur des mines en Afrique du Sud, decouvre un cadavre dans son salon. C'est le prelude d'une poursuite qui se deroulera dans la lande ecossaise ou Hannay est poursuivi par une organisation criminelle internationale, La Pierre Noire dont l'objectif est de declencher la guerre en Europe. Durant vingt jours, Hannay cherchera a sauver sa vie et la signification de ce que sont Les Trente-Neuf Marches ."