Few among even the most educated modern people recognize "Prester John," a mythical Eastern Christian king whose existence Europeans widely believed during the late Middle Ages. Fewer still appreciate the enormous impact this strange...
The legends of Prester John (also Presbyter John), popular in Europe from the 12th through the 17th centuries, told of a Christian patriarch and king said to rule over a Christian nation lost amidst the Muslims and pagans in the Orient. Written accounts...
Robert Silverberg. The Realm of Prester John. Athens: Ohio UP, 1996. 344 pp. $16.95. This book is an unchanged reprint of the 1972 original edition published by Doubleday. Although Silverberg names his sources in the text, customary notes are dispensed with and...
Travel is broadening, Father said, so I opened a map. When I stretched it over the pool table, the shared desert of Somalia and Ethiopia sundered, just south of where he'd written, next to Addis Ababa, Prester John. Father collected travel books; as a...
Paul Anka has written an inordinate amount of pop music classics, cranking out hit songs like "My Way" for Frank Sinatra, "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" for Buddy Holly, saving "Lonely Boy," "Put Your Head on My Shoulder," "Puppy Love" and others for himself — not...
