"This 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.
As 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.
Can 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!"
![ebook cover of Les Trente-neuf marches (suivi de Le prophète au manteau vert) [édition intégrale revue et mise à jour], by John Buchan](https://mysmartbook.fr/media/3c/6b/50/1775755870/les-trenteneuf-marches-suivi-de-le-prophete-au-manteau-vert-edition-integrale-revue-et-mise-a-jour-john-buchan-9791023204834-cover.jpg?ts=1787393621 "ebook cover of Les Trente-neuf marches (suivi de Le prophète au manteau vert) [édition intégrale revue et mise à jour], by John Buchan")
