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    Prester John is a 1910 adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It tells the story of the young Scotsman David Crawfurd and his adventures in...
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    Prester John (Latin: Presbyter Ioannes) was a legendary Christian patriarch, presbyter, and king. Stories popular in Europe in the 12th to the 17th centuries...
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  • (novel), 1910 novel by John Buchan Prester John (comics), a Marvel Comics character based on the legend Prester Jon, a DC Comics character Prester John...
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    was gone." In the initial letter ostensibly written by the mythical Prester John and sent to European heads of state in 1165, the priest-king claims that...
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  • claimed to be a priest (Prester John) who ruled over the great kingdom of Ethiopia. According to the letters, Prester John's subjects included some Jewish...
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  • Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn (category Fantasy novel series)
    thanks to King John the Presbyter (also known as Prester John), who is known to have slain a dragon. When the first novel opens Prester John's health in his...
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  • They are betrayed and Sir Francis is executed. Hal winds up working for Prester John. Film and television rights to the book were bought by Corona Pictures...
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  • Baudolino (category 2000 Italian novels)
    von Eschenbach's Parzival) and learns about the legendary kingdom of Prester John. From this event onward, Baudolino dreams of reaching this fabled land...
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    children, Alice, John, William, and Alastair. In 1910, Buchan wrote Prester John, set in South Africa, another of his adventure novels. He began to suffer...
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  • Orville Swanson – Congregationalist minister in Red Dead Redemption 2 Prester John – Christian priest-king of medieval legend (Names are listed by alphabetically...
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    Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014. "Prester John". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August...
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    The character Prester John in John Paterson's Mare, James Hogg's allegorical satire on the Edinburgh publishing scene, is based on John Murray. He is...
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  • female detective as main character. John Buchan wrote the adventure novels on Prester John (1910) and four novels telling the adventures of Richard Hannay...
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    Frederick Barbarossa, to his mission to visit the mythical realm of Prester John. Throughout his retelling, Baudolino brags about his ability to swindle...
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    000 copies. The novel originally appeared in the magazine Adventure on March 3, 1921. The novel adventures in the realms of Prester John. Chalker, Jack...
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    novel Baudolino, the protagonist meets Blemmyes along with Sciapods and a number of monsters from the medieval bestiary in his quest to find Prester John...
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  • a secret identity" into popular culture. John Buchan wrote adventure novels like Prester John (1910). Novels featuring a gentleman adventurer were popular...
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  • becomes a Knight and a Privateer and assists the ruler of Ethiopia, Prester John in repelling Arab invaders. Monsoon follows the adventures of Hal's sons...
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    Orlando's lost wits. Astolfo travels to Ethiopia where he met Senapo (Prester John), the emperor of that land. In a situation similar to the story of Phineus...
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    Toghrul became identified with the legendary Central Asian Christian king Prester John, whose Mongol descendants were sought as allies against the Muslims by...
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    (vol. 2) (October 2007) Book of the Storm Book of the Scald A Dirge for Prester John Published by Night Shade Books: The Habitation of the Blessed (2010)...
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    Tribes, but the Kingdom of Prester John of Christian myth. In 1929 Lazar Borodulin published the only Yiddish science fiction novel, Yiddish: אויף יענער זייט...
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    Jesus Christ in Zombiegeddon (2003). In 2006, Savini essayed the role of Prester John, the mythical villain in the dreamlike Sea of Dust. That year also saw...
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    Cetywayo and His White Neighbours (1882). He is mentioned in John Buchan's novel Prester John. In the short story A Municipal Report in Strictly Business...
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    [citation needed] Similar non-derogatory usage can be found in the John Buchan novel Prester John from 1910. During the South African general election in 1948...
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    Navid, instead of "Wandering Jew" and "silver inch plant". Hob Gadling Prester John Spiderwort Ashwatthama As described in the first chapter of Curious Myths...
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  • novels is central Asia in the first century A.D., when the legendary Prester John supposedly established a Christian kingdom there. In Page's conception...
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    similar to a Muslim merchant. This may also have been the genesis of the Prester John myth. To resolve the China–Cathay controversy, the India Jesuits sent...
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    popular with Unknown's readers. Page's sword and sorcery tales centred on Prester John, a Howard-inspired gladiator adventurer, whose exploits took place in...
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  • (with John Bolton, David Jackson and John Stokes, in Warrior #1–10 & 13–16, 25 1982–1983, 1984) Zirk (in Warrior #3, 1982) The Legend of Prester John (in...
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