The International Prester John Project: How A Global Legend Was Created Across Six Centuries

Johann Gottlieb Georgi

Johann Gottlieb Georgi was a German geographer and naturalist who spent much of his life in Russia and Siberia. His Russia, or, A Compleat Historical Account of all the Nations which Compose that Empire (1780) flattens Prester John, the head of the Nestorian Church, and the Dalai Lama into a single figure. 

 

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