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

William Waterman

In 1555, Waterman composed his Fardle of Facions, a translation of Johann Boemus's Omnium Gentium Mores, Legus, et Ritus, which describes the kingdom of Ethiopia and its white-skinned leader, Prester John. 

Some fifty years after the Fardle appeared, Richard Hakluyt built Waterman's translation into his Principal Navigations

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