Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom: The Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John by Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev

Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom: The Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John

Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev

432 pages first pub 1974 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous mysterious medium-paced
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The so called 'Kingdom of Prester John' was a Christian power thought to exist in Central Asia at the time of the twelfth-century crusades. At a deeper level, for the steppe peoples it constitutes a distant dynamic which led to the world-shatterin...

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