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Prester John 3: The Fifth Crusade

The crusaders make their way first to Acre and then to Damietta. Perhaps someone would be along to help them soon?

Prester John 2.5: Papal Correspondence

A shorter episode, on a letter from Pope Alexander III to Prester John.

Prester John 2: Where From and What For

On the many fantastic additions to the Letter of Prester John (Dragons! Strange Bakeries! Etc!), and on the theories around it.

Prester John 1: The Letter

The legend in its early forms: the arrival in Rome of a patriarch from the east, the chronicles of Otto of Freising, and that famous "letter."